Frederick II of Prussia has a son

Frederick II was King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786.
He married Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel-Bevern in 1733.
They had no children.
Suppose Frederick II and Elisabeth Christine have a son, Prince Joachim Frederick. In 1786 he becomes King of Prussia as Joachim I.
What happens then?
 
According to Voltaire, if one believes it isn't salacious gossip that he was simply repeating, Frederick suffered from a disease/injury in his teens which caused him to have...ahem...problems in that department.

Give Fritz a wife thats more preferable to him - i.e. anyone not sponsored by Austria (Caroline/Amelia of Hannover; Elisabeth of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Anna Leopoldovna); Amalie of Nassau-Dietz etc) and we might have a fighting chance of seeing little Fritzes running around. Fritz (on the night before his wedding, wrote to his sister about his wife "there can be nothing between us, even friendship, it is a case of bonjour madame, et bon chance".

After his dad died, he exiled her to another palace, and basically only paid her a yearly visit. And even then he wasn't exactly chatty, since AFAIK his one recorded comment was after 20 years, he said to her: "Madame has become fat".

That aside, let's assume Fritzl manages to conquer his aversion on his wedding night (whether a la George IV or a la Gustav III or a la Comte d'Artois is up to you).
 
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