Anybody heard this true story?

I am sorry, I do not believe that this is a true story.

Me neither.

A tall tale rather than a true story.

Nor me, just googled -zilch.

What book on what radio station?

It sounds as if it is from Danny Robins on R4, Paranormal.

What evidence do you have that it is “true” ?

None

Fairy story

Oh, how disappointing.

I thought it was going to be a true story and Elizabeth was going to be HM Queen Elizabeth II or her mother, the Queen Mother, on an impromptu visit to the East End.

Allira that's exactly what I thought as I began to read the story.
I expected the mother to come down stairs only to find Queen Elizabeth in her home.

I was getting quite excited, Aldom

Allira

Oh, how disappointing.

I thought it was going to be a true story and Elizabeth was going to be HM Queen Elizabeth II or her mother, the Queen Mother, on an impromptu visit to the East End.

Me too. What a let down. 😕

Me too Allira. Especially as in 1951 Princess Elizabeth visited my uncle, aunt and cousin in a new block of flats on what was then the Essex edge of London (now part of a London Borough).

No, it's unbelievable.

grumppa

Me too Allira. Especially as in 1951 Princess Elizabeth visited my uncle, aunt and cousin in a new block of flats on what was then the Essex edge of London (now part of a London Borough).

Now, that is exciting!! 😀

Actually, I do remain open-minded about spirits and ghosts but would be sceptical about a physical object appearing such as a headband.

Anyway, there is nothing to stop a modern child having a hair band dating back to 1850. Except that I do not think girls wore hairbands in 1850. Ribbons in and around their hair, but not hair bands because, not only was elastic as we know it and used in hairbands not developed until the turn of the 19/20 centuries, but neither was plastic or other flexible hard material.

Girls did not wear headbands or hair bands in 1850, women who always had to wear their hair up may have used something like this, obviously not like hair bands we know. But a girl would wear her hair down. Also if this ghost girl was so poor and dishevelled she really wouldn’t possess any thing to put in her hair anyway.
I thought it would Queen Elizabeth too.

Alice in wonderland published in 1865 shows her with a headband. Material would not be elastic but it was called an Alice band. In reply to another poster it was a library book and I think the station was 📻 Nottingham but can't check online

I have some very,very old pictures of our ancestors well before 1900 - I think around 1860-70 and some of the girls have ribbons in their hair. Not quite headbands but you could tie a ribbon like a band. I never believed in ghosts until I saw one of a young man who had suicided at the age of 17. I just thought it was him in our house and then realised he had actually died a week or so earlier. My daughter saw him,too. Not scary, just plain weird.

Allira

Oh, how disappointing.

I thought it was going to be a true story and Elizabeth was going to be HM Queen Elizabeth II or her mother, the Queen Mother, on an impromptu visit to the East End.

Me too 😂😂😂

Whingey

Alice in wonderland published in 1865 shows her with a headband. Material would not be elastic but it was called an Alice band. In reply to another poster it was a library book and I think the station was 📻 Nottingham but can't check online

The Alice band that Alice-in-Woderland wears would have been a long ribbon tied under her hair at the back, so when taken off would not have been a hairband but a hair ribon.

I can remember my mother tying a ribbon round my hair in that way.

I also thought it was going to be little Princess Elizabeth.