Hampton Court Palace
HAMPTON COURT, LONDON
Hampton Court Palace is a magnificent Tudor building built by Cardinal Wolsey in the 16th century. It has become world famous for not only being the home of
Charles I and II, Elizabeth I and Henry VIII, but also for its ghosts. Jane Seymour, Henry VIII's third wife, died at the palace twelve days after giving birth to
her son, who later became Edward VI. She is often seen along Clock Court or in the Silver Stick Gallery, wearing a white robe and carrying a candle. The ghost
of Lady Catherine Howard, the 5th wife of Henry VIII, is believed to walk what is now known as the Haunted Gallery. Her ghostly screams are heard by visitors
and some have seen a shadowy figure run through the Gallery. There is a ghost of a 'Gray Lady' who is thought to be Mrs. Sibell Penn, nurse to Henry VIII's
children. She died of smallpox in 1562, but her spirit rested in peace until the remains of her body were removed from the nearby St. Mary's Church in 1892.
Residents at Hampton Court began to hear voices and the whirring sound of a spinning wheel. A wall was removed close to where the noise had been reported,
revealing a sealed chamber containing a spinning wheel. It is thought that the wheel belonged to Mrs. Penn. Also amongst the strange occurrences at the Court
are ghostly cavaliers, pageboys and children dressed in Tudor costume. On October 7th of 2003, one of those ghosts was seemingly captured on a Closed
Circuit Television camera that monitors one of the emergency exits of the castle.
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