Prince Charles' 'haunted' house scared Camilla so much she couldn't set foot inside it for years
- Duchess of Cornwall said she sensed there were ghosts inside Dumfries House
- The dilapidated Scottish mansion was saved by Charles in 2007 and done up
- She told the story in her documentary The Real Camilla on ITV at 9pm tonight
Camilla has revealed she was so spooked by Prince Charles' 'haunted house' that she couldn't set foot in it for years.
The Duchess of Cornwall, who allowed a documentary team to follow her around for a year, has told of how she couldn't bear to visit the Prince of Wales' Dumfries House because she sensed ghosts inside.
The Real Camilla, which is on ITV at 9pm tonight, shows Camilla at the Scottish mansion which houses many of Charles' charitable organisations.
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Camilla said ghosts were inside Prince Charles' Dumfries House when it was being restored
She said: 'If you could have seen it when the prince first spotted it, you wouldn't have believed it was the same house.
'It was so sad and unlived in, unloved and neglected. And it had a really eerie feel about it. There was definitely a ghost.
'Without a shadow of a doubt. I remember the first time I walked up the steps, got into the hall and I thought, 'I can't go any further.' I literally froze.
'If my hair could stand on end, it would have done. I remember leaving and thinking I don't want to come back here again and I didn't for a few years.'
Royal restoration: The Scottish mansion was saved by Charles in 2007 and done up by 2008
Camilla said: 'I remember the first time I walked up the steps, I couldn't go any further. I froze'
The Duchess said 'without a doubt' the building was haunted and felt 'sad and neglected'
Prince Charles renovated the building in 2007 and opened it to the public in 2008, and Camilla said she'd walked in to find a 'completely new house' was it was done up.
She said: 'Whatever was there had disappeared. The whole thing seemed to be smiling again.'
Speaking about the spookiness of the property, the Duchess said: 'I love hearing clocks striking together. We've got 10 or 11 grandfather clocks that were collected by the Queen Mother.
The Duchess of Cornwall told the tale in documentary The Real Camilla, on ITV at 9pm tonight
'They are all supposed to strike at the same time but they never do. However much you wind them, they're always out of sync.'
Dumfries House had been 'saved' by the Prince in 2007 after the building was put on the market.
A group convened by the Prince secured the property and its furniture for £45m, with £20m personally guaranteed by the heir to the throne himself.
At the time it was hailed as one of the great heritage saves in modern times.
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