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Sophia, Electress of Hanover and mother of King George I of Britain, had lots of people before her in line to the throne. Thigns got weird then, though, in OTL.

Let's make them slightly less so. Say Philippe marries someone else after Minette dies, maybe because she lives a big longer, maybe becasue there's not as much of an interest in the Palatinate as elsewhere.

1. Who does she marry as a Protestant who will keep her in line to the throne? I

2. Without the pretext to the Nine Years' War(invasion of the Palatinate to support her ascension) what other interesting fallout is there?

One interesting thought on a husband - and maybe even with thigns staying consistent in France - is William VII of Hesse Kassel. he died in 1670 in paris, but partly bbecasue the doctor's bloodletting, etc. made a fever worse and killed him. He'd be the right age and looking for a wife, and it would allow the wife/consort of Denmark's king to have as a sister-in-law someone at least somewhat in line to the English throne, helping to strengthen the English alliance with the Danish against the Dutch.

This could also be interesting because OTL the region was in personal union with Sweden for a time in the early 1700s. So, if William VII's brother marries her instead, that totally changes thigns for that region.
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