Prince William and Kate Middleton are reportedly residing in the most haunted section of Kensington Palace. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, along with their three young children, live in Apartment 1A, which has been the site of numerous ghost sightings.
Among the apparitions is a deformed “wild boy” who once inhabited the West London property and is said to roam the nursery where Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and now Prince Louis have slept. This feral child was found naked and alone in a German forest in 1725 and was brought to Kensington Palace as a “human pet” for King George I.
Named “Peter the Wild Boy,” a court painting of him is still displayed in the Palace and reveals severe facial abnormalities, leading modern experts to believe he may have had Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome. Peter, who never learned to speak or adopt table manners, preferred to curl up in a corner rather than sleep in his bed.
Eventually, the court grew weary of him and paid for his relocation to a farm in Hertfordshire. Despite living until 70, the only words he ever uttered were “Peter” and “King George.
After his death, it’s said that Peter’s spirit haunts the room currently used as Prince Louis’ nursery. Other spectral figures seen in Apartment 1A include George II, who passed away in 1760 during the devastating Seven Years’ War, reports the Daily Star.
Peter the Wild Boy” painting
The King’s desperate final words, “Why won’t they come?” have not only etched themselves into history, but are also allegedly the wistful lament of George II’s ghost at the Palace. As for Princess Sophia, Queen Victoria’s aunt, her spirit is thought to loiter around Kensington Palace, where she passed away in 1848 after a life dimmed by 11 years of blindness.
Despite being a gifted seamstress long silenced by death, staff claim to still hear the whirl of her spinning wheel. And if royal biographer Andrew Morton is to be believed, Princess Margaret’s housekeeper once confronted a sharp twist of time: “Princess Margaret’s housekeeper told her she saw a woman in regency dress suddenly appear in front of her, then vanish through a wall.”
