Thus, in February, 1897, Lieutenant Carr Glyn, of the Grenadiers, while reading in the outer room of the Queen's Library in Windsor, saw a lady in black in a kind of mantilla of black lace pass from the inner room into a corner where she was lost to view.

He supposed that she had gone out by a door there, and asked an attendant later who she was.

There was no door round the corner, and, in the opinion of some, the lady was Queen Elizabeth! She has a traditional habit, it seems, of haunting the Library.

But surely, of all people, in dress and aspect Queen Elizabeth is most easily recognised.

The seer did not recognise her, and she was probably a mere casual hallucination.