She was a beautiful young princess
daughter of a powerful nobleman
she lived with in Bamburgh Castle
in Northumberland, England
she fell in love with a handsome, brave knight
her father didn’t approve of
sent the knight overseas for seven years
thinking his daughter would forget him
but his daughter pined daily for her love
to try to cheer his daughter up
he bought her a beautiful, pink dress
sometime later, the father lied to her
said his spies discovered the knight had
fallen in love with and married another woman
the daughter so distraught by the news
put on her beautiful, pink dress and
jumped off the castle battlement to her death
the knight returned seven years later
unmarried and still in love with the princess
now the ghostly princess in the pink dress
appears every seven years in the castle
and wanders down to the shore next to it
waiting for her forbidden love to return.
Bob Boyd