--- description: Stockholm's UNESCO-listed Royal Palace is haunted by a host of friendly spooks. That's according to Queen Silvia of Sweden, who lives there title: Sweden's Queen Silvia Says Friendly Ghosts Haunt Her Palace image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaa12d2e00af1d09b/6988b456656a3f2ccebce474/gettyimages-613093212.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [sweden](/tag/sweden/) ## sweden Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Sweden's Queen Silvia Says She Shares Her Royal Residence With Friendly Ghosts by [Joseph Hincks](/author/joseph-hincks/) ## Joseph Hincks Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 4, 2017 3:11 AM CUT  Queen Silvia of Sweden at the Chamaeleon Theatre in Berlin on Oct. 7, 2016. Queen Silvia of Sweden at the Chamaeleon Theatre in Berlin on Oct. 7, 2016.Rainer Jensen—AFP/Getty Images by [Joseph Hincks](/author/joseph-hincks/) ## Joseph Hincks Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 4, 2017 3:11 AM CUT Stockholm’s UNESCO-listed Royal Palace is haunted by a host of friendly spooks. That’s according to Queen Silvia of Sweden, who lives there with her husband King Carl XVI Gustaf, Agence France-Presse [reports](https://www.yahoo.com/news/ghosts-haunt-palace-says-swedish-queen-155413476.html "undefined"). “There are small friends … ghosts. They’re all very friendly but you sometimes feel that you’re not completely alone,” Queen Silvia, 73, reportedly said in a documentary to be aired on Thursday by SVT, Sweden’s national broadcaster. “It’s really exciting. But you don’t get scared,” she adds. Drottningholm Palace on Stockholm’s Lovon Island, which was built in the 1600s, has long been rumored to house ghosts. Its spectral inhabitants purportedly include a “gray man” and a “white lady,” according to [this](http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/kolumnister/hermanlindqvist/article12279429.ab "undefined") 2010 column in Swedish newspaper _Aftonbladet_ (in Swedish). Sweden’s longest serving Queen is not the only royal to report a paranormal presence. “There is much energy in this house. It would be strange if it didn’t take the form of guises,” Princess Christina, the King’s sister reportedly says in the documentary. “There’s stories about ghosts in all old houses. They have been filled with people over the centuries. The energies remain.” \[[_AFP_](https://www.yahoo.com/news/ghosts-haunt-palace-says-swedish-queen-155413476.html "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4621424/queen-silvia-sweden-royal-palace-ghosts/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4621424/queen-silvia-sweden-royal-palace-ghosts/"},"headline":"Sweden's Queen Silvia Says She Shares Her Royal Residence With Friendly Ghosts","datePublished":"2017-01-04T03:11:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:39:52.403Z","description":"\"You sometimes feel that you're not completely alone\"","url":"https://time.com/4621424/queen-silvia-sweden-royal-palace-ghosts/","keywords":["sweden","Newsfeed","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaa12d2e00af1d09b/6988b456656a3f2ccebce474/gettyimages-613093212.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Joseph Hincks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/joseph-hincks/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaa12d2e00af1d09b/6988b456656a3f2ccebce474/gettyimages-613093212.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"GERMANY-SWEDEN-ROYALS","caption":"GERMANY-SWEDEN-ROYALS","creditText":"Rainer Jensen—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/sweden/","name":"sweden"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4621424/queen-silvia-sweden-royal-palace-ghosts/","name":"Sweden's Queen Silvia Says She Shares Her Royal Residence With Friendly Ghosts"}}]}] ```