Sorry, No Ghost

[poliphilo]

The Queen's House at Greenwich was built by architect and stage designer Inigo Jones for James I's Queen, Anne of Austria, and her daughter-in-law, Henrietta Maria.  Work was completed in 1635. It is claimed to be the earliest neo-classical building in Britain and to contain the earliest example in Britain of a spiral staircase without a central support.

TheTulip Staircase- so called because the ornamental ironwork of the banisters is believed to represent tulips (more probably fleur de lys- in tribute to Henrietta Maria's French origins)- was where in 1966 a Canadian clergyman inadvertently shot one of the most famous- and convincing- photographs of a ghost ever taken. I took several snaps, but nothing untoward turned up on any of them. Swizz!

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[sovay]

TheTulip Staircase- so called because the ornamental ironwork of the banisters is believed to represent tulips

It's lovely.

[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

Denmark, darling.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

Even without a ghost, that is a lovely perspective. I think there was too much light for the ghost(s) to want to manifest.