Legend
According to legend, the ghost of Catherine Howard haunts The Haunted Gallery. Staff have reported hearing screaming and crying and even thumping on the chapel doors, visitors have also claimed to have had unpleasant encounters. Jane Seymour, Henry VIII's third wife, is said to appear holding a candle on the anniversary of her son Edward VI's birth and silently walking towards his bedroom. Other ghosts include Henry VIII himself and a woman named Mrs. Sybil Penn, Edward VI's nurse. She died of smallpox in 1562 and her grave was damaged by a storm in the early 19th century. Staff have heard the sound of a spinning wheel and the muttering of an old woman and found a room containing an old spinning wheel.
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