Monday 22 April 2024

At School We Were Taught How To Remember The Fates Of Henry VIII wives,

it was a rhyme: "Divorced, beheaded, died; Divorced, beheaded, survived."


photographs from Patrice-Besse, well if you are a history buff and you fancy living where one of the wives spent their formative years, this could be the palace for you, it is where Anne Boleyn, the first to be beheaded lived, the 14th century keep is all that’s left of a moated castle that fell to ruin, but this unique piece of history is than an hour’s drive from Paris, near the Haute Vallée de Chevreuse regional nature park, Her long stay here left its mark on the property: Anne Boleyn’s name is still associated with the place today, the grounds cover around 1,600m². They include many species of trees and shrubs. A path lined with chestnut trees leads up to the keep from the large entrance gate in a stone archway. A second gate made of wrought iron near the detached house also leads into the property,







for the full inventory and history of the buildings dating back to the 14th-centuary have a look here, the property is listed at Patrice-Besse, Rive Gauche, 7 rue Chomel 75007 Paris, Ile Saint-Louis, 18 rue Budé 75004 Paris. +33 1 42 84 80 85 and the question, how much? Yours for €950,000, plus vendors fees, at today’s rate £818,692.06 or $1,011,911.50, what a fantastic piece of history to live in.


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