The Murdered Princes in the Tower 1483

Jane Seymour’s Candle (Hampton Court)

A gentler haunt: a pale figure with a taper on the Silverstick Stairs, near where Jane Seymour gave Henry his son and then died days later. The story is tender, almost domestic — a mother gone, a light left burning. The palace keeps the tale alongside the history, as places do when memory and loss have had time to braid.

Sources: Historic Royal Palaces page referencing Hampton Court hauntings and the Silverstick Stairs tradition.

Gemma

The past is never silent