Halloween Ghosts at Hampton Court Palace
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🗓️ 25 October 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Warning - Spooky Stories !!
Jana visits the wonderful Hampton Court Palace by the River Thames to get into the mood for Halloween. Hampton Court Palace belonged to England’s King Henry VIII in the 16th century - and as you may know he had six wives, two of whom, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, were executed up the river at the Tower of London. This is a really beautiful palace, packed with history and ghosts.
Jana toured the palace with Sheila, a State Apartment Warder at Hampton Court, who conducts ghost tours around the palace. Sheila tells us some amazing stories that mingle history with spookiness including:
The Haunted Gallery - and the tragic last days of Henry the VIII's fifth wife, the young Catherine Howard. (It is a fascinating but quite a heart rending story - so be WARNED).
The very spooky story of The Grey Lady, Sybil Penn, who was the nursemaid of Prince Edward (the son of Henry's third wife, Jane Seymour) who later became King Edward VI while still young. Sybil's ghost involves a mysterious spinning wheel.
The story of the skeletons of two builders who died while building the Fountain Court of Hampton Court in the time of King William and Queen Mary.
And if you want more spookiness, Sheila recommends you check out the video of the skeletor of Hampton Court that was filmed in 2003 by a security camera.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is Jana, and I've come to Hampton Court Palace by the River Thames to get into the mood for Halloween. |
| 0:13.6 | Hampton Court Palace belonged to England's King Henry VIII in the 16th century, and as you may know, he had six wives, two of whom Anne Boleyn and |
| 0:22.9 | Catherine Howard were executed just up the river from here at the Tower of London. This is a really |
| 0:29.0 | beautiful palace packed with history, and I can well imagine a few ghosts. I'm going to be walking |
| 0:35.3 | around the state apartments with Sheila, who leads the ghost |
| 0:38.4 | tours at Hampton Court. Sheila's kindly agreed to tell me the spookiest stories of the palace. |
| 0:44.9 | So Sheila, thank you very much for agreeing to show me around this wonderful palace. Where do |
| 0:50.3 | most of the stories come from? Well, most of the stories, Jarner, come from our |
| 0:54.7 | Grace and Favour residents. They were special people that lived here from 1760 who had done |
| 1:01.2 | some great service for the Crown and they could live here rent free for life and they became |
| 1:08.8 | known as Grace and Favour Residents. Looks like a wonderful place to live but |
| 1:13.5 | can it be very scary? There are lots of ghost stories here attributed to Hampton Court Palace and yes |
| 1:19.8 | I can testify to working here in the day and a lot of strange unexplained and frankly scary things do happen. |
| 1:30.4 | Oh, wonderful, that's exactly what I want to hear. |
| 1:32.6 | Where will you take us first? |
| 1:34.6 | Well, I think we should start in the famous Tudor Haunted Gallery. |
| 1:40.6 | Wonderful. I'm excited. |
| 1:49.7 | Yeah. Wonderful. I'm excited. So in the famous gallery, it's quite dark, and there's a famous painting, that must be Henry VIII over here. |
| 1:56.2 | Sheila, what does all this mean? |
| 1:57.9 | Well, this is one of Henry's famous galleries where he would basically walk |
| 2:02.8 | from his private apartments along here. And you see, we've got two doors to either side of the wall. |
| 2:11.2 | These doors led to Henry VIII and his queen, whoever she was at the time, their private praying rooms, the top of the chapel. |
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