Supernatural Appearance at Holland House
Aubrey tells us, in his “Miscellanies,” that “the beautiful Lady Diana Rich, daughter of the Earl of Holland, as she was walking in her father’s garden, at Kensington, to take the fresh air before dinner, about eleven o’clock, being then very well, met with her own apparition—habit and everything—as in a looking-glass. About a month after she died of smallpox. It is said that her sister, the Lady Elizabeth Thynne, saw the like of herself also, before she died. This account I had from a person of honor.”