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Hello all. This TL is written partially as the reboot of Duchess of Cumberland TL, however it will feature different PoD and slightly different cast of characters.
Pretty much it is inspired by this discussion, though I decided on a slighlty different PoD/set of PoDs.

So, we are starting our story in 1663. 12-years old Princess Wilhelmina Ernestina of Denmark gets bad cold from standing too close to an open window during celebration of betrothal of her elder sister to Electoral Prince of Saxony. Despite best efforts of court physicians to save her life, the girl perishes from pneumonia in October of the same year.
Meanwhile, in Russia, a nobleman Semyon Grushetsky has sex with his wife 15 minutes later than OTL due to falling down in the hall of his house stumbling on the stray cat. The girl, christened Agafia, is born 9 months later - boasting stronger constitution that OTL Agafia (similar to her younger sister Anna).

While the death of Princess had stronger political consequences than birth of a girl of less delicate constitution, both of these events will have big fallout only in 1670ies. So, we'll start our story in this time period.
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