AH Challenge: Hapsburg America

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to put a Hapsburg on the throne(s) of the United States of America, Brazil, and/or Argentina with a POD anytime after 1700. At least one of these monarchies must still exist in the ATL 2008, though it may be a figurehead constitutional monarch.
 
Mexico's Maximillian doesn't count?

Perhpas Maximillian's regime could last and marry into the Brazilian royal family before it's ousted.
 
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to put a Hapsburg on the throne(s) of the United States of America, Brazil, and/or Argentina with a POD anytime after 1700. At least one of these monarchies must still exist in the ATL 2008, though it may be a figurehead constitutional monarch.

Well, IOTL the Emperor Pedro II tried to marry the princess Isabel to the Archduke Ludwig Viktor, but I think that he would not be the right person to produce a lasting Empire and Brazilian Habsburg branch...

But what about this: IOTL Maria Amelia of Braganza, the daughter of Pedro I of Brazil and Amelia of Leuchtenberg was promised to marry Maxiliam, but the marriage never happened and she died in 1853 from tuberculosis. But WI they had married? Maria could give birth a son (let's call him Francis, as Max's father), and even if she dies around 1853 as IOTL her son would still be a cousin of the heir of Brazil (as Maximilian was cousin of Pedro II).

Also, let's make Afonso Pedro (1845-1847), the first son of Pedro II,
survive. He died from yellow fever, so it could be avoided with some luck. Now, a male heir would not have the same problems as Isabel had IOTL. And, if he is not as his father and likes the army and military issues more than books and ancient languages then he could have more support and the army doesn't become Republican (a shorter or no Tripple Alliance War would help too).

Now we have Francis of Austria, Max's son, who lives, marries and has children, one of them a son named Ferdinand. Afonso also lives and marries (perhaps an Orleans princess) and have many children, but no one of his sons live until adulthood, and so his heir is eldest daughter Leopoldina, who in order to strenghten the ties between the Braganzas and their Austrian cousins was married to Ferdinand of Habsburg, who eventually becomes Emperor consort of Brazil in 1920.
 
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