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Royal home 'so haunted' Queen held religious service there after staff refused to enter


One room at Sandringham House was said to be so haunted that members of staff refused to enter but the late Queen came up with a clever - and surprising - solution to the problem

But it's Sandringham House that takes the crown for one of the most bizarre incidents, as disclosed in the diaries of the late high-society columnist Kenneth Rose, which came to light posthumously. He wrote about a peculiar "little service" held in a downstairs bedroom of the grand 18th Century mansion back in 2000, after staff reported supernatural encounters. The servants at Sandringham were once so petrified of a certain room where King George VI spent his final days before passing away in 1952 that they openly refused to enter it, claiming it was plagued by paranormal activity.

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