Another Anne Boleyn Place- Palace at Mechelen

Palace of Mechelen

To retrace the steps of Anne Boleyn we have journeyed to many castles, stately homes, chapels and buildings in England but today we venture across the English Channel to modern day Belgium and what was once Margaret of Austria’s Palace at Mechelen.

In the 15^th and 16^th century, Mechelen was the capital of Burgundian Netherlands or the Low Countries (roughly present day Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg).

The Palace of Mechelen, built from 1507 as a residence for Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands, was home to a young Charles V who spent much of his youth here under the watchful eye of his aunt Margaret.

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