Royal fans might be surprised to hear that Queen Elizabeth once held a seance of sorts at Sandringham House , but she reportedly called in a local rector after some ghostly stories worried the staff. In his new biography of Queen Elizabeth , author Robert Hardman wrote that Queen Elizabeth stepped in after reports of an “unhappy spiritual presence” in the royal residence.

Princess Diana died in 1997, and in Elizabeth II: In Private. In Public. Her Story , Hardman shared a story about the late Queen’s friend, Prue Penn, staying at Sandringham “not long after” Diana’s tragic death.

“Some of the housemaids had reported sensing a mysterious and unhappy spiritual presence in one of the rooms,” the royal biographer wrote.…