The Queens House

The Queen's House. Romney Road. Greenwich. SE10.

Ghosts On Film?

Designed by Inigo Jones (1573-1652) for Charles 1st's wife, Henrietta Maria, the Queen's House was completed in 1635 and is one of Greenwich's most elegant and graceful buildings.

In 1966, the Reverend and Mrs R.W. Hardy, from White Rock, British Columbia, visited the house and took a photograph of its magnificent Tulip staircase. When they returned home and developed the film, a shrouded figure was clearly visible on this particular picture.

Closer inspection revealed what appeared to be two figures, apparently ascending what had certainly been an empty staircase. Despite rigorous examination by photographic experts no rational explanation has ever been put forward to explain the presence of the figures, other than that they must have been there when the picture was taken.