A HOTAL GHOST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10413, 10 April 1897, Page 2 (Supplement)

A HOTAL GHOST.

APPARITION OP QUIiEN ELIZABETH

AT WINDSOR CASTLE. An oitraorilinary etory to tlio effect that Lieutenant A. St. Legor Olyn, of the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, has seen what he believes to be a ghost in Windsor Castle was told a few days ago. In the coarse of an interview with a reporter the Hon. Mrs. Uarr-Gryn, the mother of thu lieutenant, said that there was truth in the matter. Mrs. Carr-Glyn said :—" It is perfectly truo that my eon witnessed. aoinethitig nbnormnl. Hβ wait, he tells me, sitting in the library of Windsor Castle reading a book—the 1 History of Dorsetshire,' to be exact. As he read he became aware ol somebody passing in the inner library. He looked up and saw a female figiiro in black, with black lace on the head, tailing on to the shoulders. The figure passed across tho library towards a corner which was out of viow as my eon sat, mid he did not take much notice, thinking it was somebody reading '■> the inner room. This wns just upon four in tho afternoon, and an attendant soon afterwards camo up to close tho place. Aly son aeked who the lady was who was at work in the inner room, and the attendant replied that no one else was in the library. My eon assured the attendant that a lady had just before walked across the inner room. ' Then where could she be?' askod the attendant, having ascertained that nobody was in the inner room. ' She must have gone out of a door in the corner,' said my son, indicating the corner to which tho figure ha 1 passed. 'But there is no door,' aaid the attendant. My eon said nothing about this incident, und did not think very much about it, I understand, until Mr. Holmes, the librarian, asked him nbout it, the attendant having mentioned tho matter to Mr. Holmos.

QUEEN ELIZABETH. " Asked by Mr. Holmes to describe the figure ho had «eon, my son did so, and Mr. Holmes replied that my son bad seen the apparition of Queen Elizabeth. Mr. Holmes added that there were records that this apparition haunted these rooms, but Lieute nant Olyu was tho first man in our time who had seon it. The Dean of Windsor also asko-.i my son about it, and sover.il members of tho Royal Family have interviewed him on the subject." Mr. Holmes says that this gallery has had tho reputation of being haunted by the ghost of Queen Elizabeth from time out of memory. lli« own recollection of the story dates from '11 years ago, and ho hue been'in the habit of spending Hallowe'en in the gallery for several years in the hope of encountering hor deceased Majesty, He had heard some rumour to the effect thai ilio Empress Frederick had, when a child, seen an apparition in the gallery, and on her visiting Windsor iuipos to secure some corroboration or denial o; tho rumour. The Dean of Windsor Minowhar doubts tho alleged appoaranc ■■ of Queen Elizabeth j he ha , a stronger belief In >ho apparition, some years back, of King Charles the First. Tho last person who is recorded to have been favoured with a manifestation on the pact of tho Koyal maryr was Mr?. Boyd-Car-penter, wife of tho present Bishop of Kipon, who was between 18S2 and ISS4 ■; canon of Windsor.