{"id":390246,"date":"2026-11-01T23:32:43","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T23:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/390246\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T23:32:43","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T23:32:43","slug":"queen-camilla-shares-a-terrifying-ghost-story-from-a-royal-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/390246\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Camilla Shares a Terrifying Ghost Story from a Royal Residence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Palace of Holyroodhouse<\/a>, date back to the 1500s, it\u2019s no surprise to hear a good ghost story<\/a>. Spirits reportedly haunt everywhere from Sandringham House<\/a> to Windsor Castle<\/a>, but there\u2019s one Scottish property that Queen Camilla<\/a> refused to return to for \u201cyears\u201d after a creepy incident.<\/p>\n

In the 2018 documentary The Real Camilla, the now-Queen reflected on a terrifying visit to Dumfries House<\/a>, a building that was constructed in the 1750s and serves as the headquarters for The King\u2019s Foundation. The home needed extensive renovations when King Charles<\/a> purchased it in 2007, and Camilla said that she got an “eerie” feeling when she first visited.<\/p>\n

“There was definitely a ghost\u2014without a shadow of a doubt. I remember the first time I walked up the steps, got into the hall and I thought, ‘I can’t go any further.’ I literally froze,\u201d Queen Camilla recalled. \u201cIf my hair could stand on end, it would have done.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camilla was so rattled by the moment that she refused to come back to Dumfries House, admitting, \u201cI remember leaving and thinking, \u2018I don’t want to come back here again,\u2019 and I didn’t for a few years.”<\/p>\n

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Once the renovations were completed, The Queen did return, and she shared, “Whatever was there had disappeared. The whole thing seemed to be smiling again.”<\/p>\n

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Paranormal historian Richard Felix appeared on Hello! magazine\u2019s \u201cA Right Royal Podcast<\/a>\u201d in 2023 to dish on royal ghosts<\/a>, explaining that Dumfries House is rumored to be haunted by the Marquess of Bute.<\/p>\n

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“I speak to [a number of people who] ring me and say, \u2018We bought this house and everything was fine until we started doing some work on the house,\u2019\u201d Felix shared. \u201cA prime example of that is Dumfries House.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Queen Camilla isn’t the only royal who has experienced a frightful spirit. “Prince Charles was apparently terrified at Sandringham<\/a> when he was again in the library at Sandringham, he and a footman were in there and followed around the library by a ghost!” Felix shared.<\/p>\n


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