How Queen Elizabeth responded to a haunted bedroom at Sandringham
Rose even mused whether the specter could be Princess Diana, who had died only a few years earlier
A long-whispered tale has resurfaced after royal biographer Kenneth Rose noted in his private journals that Queen Elizabeth II and the Queen Mother attended a quiet “cleansing” in 2000 inside the bedroom where King George VI died in 1952.
On his podcast Queens, Kings and Dastardly Things, historian Robert Hardman says it wasn’t a movie-style exorcism.
Instead, a parson blessed the room, with Holy Communion and special prayers reportedly said by the Queen Mother, the Queen, and lady-in-waiting Prue Penn to soothe what staff described as a “restless” presence.
Hardman stresses the late Queen’s faith was spiritual, not superstitious, suggesting her presence was as much about reassuring frightened staff as it was about confronting the paranormal.
Rose even mused whether the specter could be Princess Diana, who had died only a few years earlier, though there’s no evidence.
Adding to Sandringham’s spooky lore, author John West claims in Britain’s Ghostly Heritage that King Charles, once fled a library there after a disturbing encounter.
Ghost stories aside, Sandringham remains the royal Christmas HQ.
As Prince Harry recalled in Spare, Christmas Eve brings a black-tie gift exchange free-for-all; Christmas morning sees the family walking to St. Mary Magdalene Church before returning for a day together.
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