I adored helping my beloved grandfather look after some of the family treasures, including the Codex Leicester, a priceless manuscript written by Leonardo da Vinci himself.īut I also have some darker memories - of my sister Carey waking up screaming night after night, haunted repeatedly by the ghost of a young woman who had suffered terribly when she lived at the Hall. We played hide-and-seek and rode our ponies and our bicycles around the 3,000 acres of grounds within the walls of the park. When I look back on my childhood at Holkham - a colossal Palladian mansion on the north Norfolk coast with a huge, imposing Marble Hall at its centre, ornate state rooms and four enormous wings - I have many fond memories. Here, on the eve of Halloween, in a spine-tingling account, she explains how the spectral intruder became the star of her latest murder-mystery. Lady Anne Glenconner - friend and confidante of Princess Margaret and best-selling author - grew up at Holkham Hall in Norfolk where the family and their staff lived cheek-by-jowl with a very persistent ghost.
