The Chilling Story of Why Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mother Attended an Exorcism at Sandringham
The rumor about the supernatural event can be traced back to royal biographer Kenneth Rose, who wrote in his journal about a ceremony reportedly held at Sandringham House in 2000.
After reports from staff about strange and frightening phenomena in the bedroom where Queen Elizabeth's father, King George VI, died in 1952, the Queen Mother reportedly decided to stage a "religious cleansing ritual" to rid the room of any possible ominous spirits.
"There was no dramatic casting out of demons, like you see in films. It was said that the room contained a troubled spirit and that the parson was supposed to bless the space," historian and royal biographer Robert Hardman explained in a recent episode of his podcast, Queens, Kings and Dastardly Things.
Rose claimed that Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and her lady-in-waiting, Prue Penn, took part in the ceremony, which consisted of taking Holy Communion and saying special prayers, with the goal of ridding the space of its seeming "restlessness."
"No one was quite sure who the ghost was supposed to be, despite it appearing in the room where George VI had died," Hardman noted. "Rose speculated whether it might be the ghost of Diana, the late Princess of Wales, who had died a few years before."
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The rumor about the supernatural event can be traced back to royal biographer Kenneth Rose, who wrote in his journal about a ceremony reportedly held at Sandringham House in 2000.
After reports from staff about strange and frightening phenomena in the bedroom where Queen Elizabeth's father, King George VI, died in 1952, the Queen Mother reportedly decided to stage a "religious cleansing ritual" to rid the room of any possible ominous spirits.
"There was no dramatic casting out of demons, like you see in films. It was said that the room contained a troubled spirit and that the parson was supposed to bless the space," historian and royal biographer Robert Hardman explained in a recent episode of his podcast, Queens, Kings and Dastardly Things.
Rose claimed that Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and her lady-in-waiting, Prue Penn, took part in the ceremony, which consisted of taking Holy Communion and saying special prayers, with the goal of ridding the space of its seeming "restlessness."
"No one was quite sure who the ghost was supposed to be, despite it appearing in the room where George VI had died," Hardman noted. "Rose speculated whether it might be the ghost of Diana, the late Princess of Wales, who had died a few years before."
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
