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AHC to let your native Italian royal families (Este, Farnese, Gonzaga, Medici) survive to the present, a little more enlightened (like OTL Leopoldo I in Florence, Filippo I in Parma and Carlos III in Naples) and less inbred/apathetic/predilected to boys/religious maniacs, with a POD no later than 1675. So, in other words the princes we know (Ferdinando, Francesco Maria and Gian Gastone de Medici; Oddoardo, Francesco and Antonio Farnese, Carlo III Gonzaga) are already born, but have a) same wives but better luck getting children; b) different wives, or c) illegitimate sons that the pope and emperor are willing to acknowledge.

NOTE: male line only please if this AHC is at all possible
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