Friendly Ghosts Haunt Swedish Royal Palace, Queen Says

Queen Silvia says one of the Swedish royal family's palaces is haunted - but the phantoms are “pretty friendly.” “There are ghosts, many,” Silvia says of the Drottningholm Palace in a documentary to be aired Thursday on public television channel SVT. “You feel you get a little excited” when talking about them, she adds, smilingly. Asked whether Sweden's longest-serving queen had experienced the ghosts herself, she replied “of course. But they are...

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