Windsor Castle

It has long been said, that Windsor Castle is the most haunted of all the royal residences.

With over 1,000 years of history, Windsor was never going to escape an alleged haunting.

With over twenty-five reported experiences with ghosts and spirits, claims include sightings of Queen Elizabeth I, King Henry VIII and King George III.

Even the late Queen Elizabeth II, admitted to witnessing at least one ghostly encounter.

Queen Elizabeth I's footsteps can be heard on the bare floorboards, of the library, before her striking presence appears.

If you want to see the mad and eccentric King George III, you would want to be in the room below the library.

Towards the end of his reign the King became so mentally ill that he was confined in this room for long periods of the day.

Witnesses describe seeing a figure “looking longingly out of the window"

There are also records of hearing the “hobbling” ghost of King Henry VIII.

The king suffered from gout and painful ulcers on his leg, making it difficult to walk, his spirit is heard dragging his feet and moaning in the Deanery cloisters.

Those who have seen him say he looks quite agitated, sometimes shouting.

Anne Boleyn, who was exEcuted on a false charges conspiracy and adultery, is certainly not resting in peace.

She has been seen by many, weeping in a window of the Dean’s Cloister.

Is it she, that the agitated Henry VIII is shouting at?

Just below the checked flooring of St George’s Chapel, where royal brides such as Princess Eugenie and the Duchess of Sussex have recently walked, lie the coffins of King Henry VIII, King George V and King Charles I, among many others.

During the reign of King George IV, he and Sir Henry Halford went underneath the chapel and opened the tombs of King Charles I and King Henry VIII.

He was so interested by the bodies of his dead ancestors that he allowed Halford to draw Charles I’s face.

However, because of the change in pressure, King Charles’ eye exploded… all over King George IV!

He also allowed Halford to take a souvenir- the king’s cervical vertebrae.

The bone was handed down through generations before it was given to the Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VII).

His mother, Queen Victoria was outraged it had been taken in the first place, and had it reinterred in a separate box next to the Stuart king.

Many monarchs have put their stamp on Windsor Castle, but Edward VIII was stopped by the spirit of his great-grandmother! Edward’s controversial lover, Wallis Simpson, had ideas for several renovations she wanted to make to the castle and its grounds, one of them included removing trees planted by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

The trees still stand to this day, so how can that be?

Well, the workers were apparently scared away by the spirit of Queen Victoria waving her arms and moaning loudly, clearly she was not amused at the uprooting of her tree's!

Queen Elizabeth II claimed that she and her sister, Princess Margaret, witnessed paranormal activity in the castle.

They firmly believed it to be an apparition of their ancestor, Queen Elizabeth I.

While there have been reports of everything from hobbling ghosts, to saluting soldiers and even stolen bones, there is another regular appearance that will certainly send a shiver down your spine.

Herne the Hunter, is an antlered figure who is said to ride a horse, torment cattle and rattle chains.

It is believed his spirit appears in Windsor Great Park, when the king or queen is close to death, or when the nation is in peril.

For all the known ghosts however, there are ghosts we know nothing about.

In the Deanery, a little boy can be heard shouting

“I don’t want to go riding today!”

The Norman Gate – the entrance into the Upper Ward near the Round Tower – is home to an unknown Royalist prisoner from the Civil War, but he has only ever been seen by children; adults have instead felt him brush past.

In the kitchen, the ghost of a man and a horse has been seen walking through a wall.

The kitchen was once the Castle’s cavalry stables so that would explain this seemingly-unusual location for a horse.

The same kitchen also has the ghost of a little girl in blue who stands by a Christmas tree, she is sometimes accompanied by a “white lady”

The Long Walk is haunted by the ghost of a young Grenadier Guard, who reportedly shot himself while on duty in the 1920’s.

The Curfew Tower, is regularly filled with the sounds of footsteps with no body accompanying them.

On one occasion the temperature dropped and the bells started to swing by themselves!

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