Le Roi est Mort, Vive le...la Reine?

@ Drake I read that Louis XVIII did lead her to believe that Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette WANTED her to marry Angouleme. However, it might have still played out that way barring the Revolution in any case. Antoinette was fond of her daughter, as was Louis XVI, so much so that they had postponed/ignored proposals from both Naples (to marry Carlo, Crown Prince of Naples) and Spain (for an elder brother of Ferdinand VII). Gustaf III and Fersen's talk of her as a wife for Gustaf IV was never anything official. And both parents showed a clear-distaste for her marrying Egalite's son, Chartres (OTL Louis Philippe) as was suggested.

That leaves Enghien, Angouleme or Berri. Maybe if Angouleme (who Nagel describes as something of an asthmatic hypochondriac) were to die before marrying Marie Therese (or anyone for that matter) she could marry Berri.

Antoinette wanted her daughter at home, that much is sure. There were suggestions she'd marry Angoulême or one of Orleans broods. The Queen didn't want her off in a foreign country.
 
I was wondering how much of the conservatism could be avoided. And if so, how? And if the "Queen" had been married to Berri instead, what knock on effects could that have?
 
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