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However when Albert became accepted by the political establishment in the 1850s he turned the

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However, when Albert became accepted by the political establishment in the 1850s, he turned the throne into a real power. Victoria's high opinion of her position combined with Albert's knowledge, judgement and Teutonic talent for organisation, and it became increasingly difficult to go against their combined wishes.The acquisition of regal power was only brought to a halt by Albert's early death. If he'd lived as long as she did, ministers would have found themselves paying a lot closer attention to Prince Philip's babbling, even in the 1970s More from Simon Carr. Today I am going to pass on a yarn I heard about a month ago, when my wife and I were staying in a lonely part of East Anglia.

After dinner our host gave us a whisky each as we sat in front of a blazing fire and asked us if we would like to hear a ghost story about the very house we were staying in. That is the date of the Battle of Lone Oak Common, a Civil War battle that took place on the very ground where this house now stands. It wasn't one of your big battles; in fact, I think it was one of your undecided battles, where both sides fire away at each other but don't kill enough people to get the victory, so they march away for a replay some other time.""So the owner of the house was found dead on the very day of the battle?""Yes – killed by a blow to the back of the head And he was in a locked bedroom at the time. And there was no sign of a weapon anywhere, though there was a fallen wardrobe, so it must have been quite a struggle."There was a pause. It was such a long pause that I was about to comment that, for a ghost story, there was a large absence of ghosts, when our host spoke again." 'Where are the ghosts?' you may well ask. Ah, but they are all around us! There was a battle here, round where this house now stands Many people died. There must, in all conscience, be many soldiers' ghosts roaming round in misery, unable to get back to their families, unable even to find out the result of the Civil War.

It was quite on the cards that one of those disembodied spirits had taken his revenge on the old occupier of the house."Or so I thought, until we had a man to stay one time who was a bit of an expert on ghosts and the spirit world, and when I told him my theory, he pooh-poohed it 'That is not how the spirit world works,' he said. 'Oh yes, you get spirits attached to places they are emotionally tied to, but not to battlefields. A soldier is not attached in the afterlife to the place where he is shot. He would be attached to the home that he could never see again in this life.

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