Stuyvenberg Castle
The Stuyvenberg Castle ( French : château du Stuyvenberg , Dutch : Kasteel van Stuyvenberg ) in the Laeken district of Brussels is located northwest of Laeken Castle , the residence of the Belgian royal family . Built in 1725, after several changes of ownership in 1840 it was sold to the Belgian state for 200,000 francs .
It was used by the first Belgian King Leopold I to house his mistress Arcadie Claret and her children. In 1930 and 1934 the later Kings Baudouin and Albert II were born in the castle . After the Second World War , it served Elisabeth Gabriele in Bavaria , the wife of King Albert I , who died in 1934 , as a widow's residence until 1965 . From 1999 until her death in 2014, Queen Fabiola , the widow of Baudouin, lived at the castle, as did Astrid of Belgium , the sister of the current King Philippe .
Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 21 ″ N , 4 ° 20 ′ 54 ″ E