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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Kristin Contino

Queen Elizabeth Delivered a Matter-of-Fact Retort When People Thought Princess Diana Was Haunting Sandringham, Per Author

Princess Diana and Queen Elizabeth wearing blue.

Royal fans might be surprised to hear that Queen Elizabeth once held a seance of sorts at Sandringham House, but she reportedly called in a local rector after some ghostly stories worried the staff. In his new biography of Queen Elizabeth, author Robert Hardman wrote that Queen Elizabeth stepped in after reports of an “unhappy spiritual presence” in the royal residence.

Princess Diana died in 1997, and in Elizabeth II: In Private. In Public. Her Story, Hardman shared a story about the late Queen’s friend, Prue Penn, staying at Sandringham “not long after” Diana’s tragic death.

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