Highly Unlikely but interesting fold of events: Charles VI has a posthumous son.

Have the Holy Roman Empress Elisabeth Christine be found to be pregnant in December 1740 after the death of Charles Vi. She was 48 at the time, no doubt probably had gone through menopause. But let's say she's one of those lucky ones who experience the change late. Basically she find's out (&confirms) she's pregnant after Frederick the Great's invasion of Silesia.

a. just as above Empress is pregnant. What will France & Spain do? Bavaria? (he's still going to make the move to be Emperor but how long will the election be delayed for the result of the pregnancy)
b. if she birth's a son say (I have a very specific name Maximilian-Philipp August Stephen Ferdinand Maria Charles Leopold von Habsburg; hit all grand Emperors/Archdukes of old and Stephen for Hungarian sake), how will that affect things? I fancy Maria Theresia not relinquishing her position but being proclaimed regent for her brother (I find her too pivotal to eliminate her with the birth of a posthumous son) until he reaches a majority? But I doubt that'll be the case so how will this affect things?
 
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The interesting thing was that Karl VI had planned for such a possibility. It was just unfortunate for him that someone fed him the plate of mushrooms when they did. The reason why the renunciation of Lorraine was such a sticking point for François Étienne/Franz Stephan came from the fact that he was giving up his birthrite for the possibility of his wife succeeding her father. See, in the renunciation, and in documents that followed it until Karl's death, François and Maria Theresia were forced to acknowledge that if Karl were to remarry in the event of his widowerhood, and father a son from the new marriage, they would be left without a chair to sit on, since they'd already given up Lorraine, and the entirety of the Habsburg empire as it stood in 1735-1739 would go to Maria Theresia's half-brother.
 
What of Prussia's invasion especially now it's already begun. I know it'll go to Maria Theresia's brother but I wondering who will run the government in the meantime? can Maria Theresia have herself declared regent?
 
AFAIK, Elisabeth Christine might have the regency for Hungary and Bohemia. But the empire itself will be under the care of the Elector Palatine and the Elector of Saxony as co-regent.
 
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