Second wife of Charles II?

If Catherine of Braganza died in around the mid 1670s who might Charles II have taken as a second wife?

Any reason specifically we're going with the 1670s? She nearly died in 1663 OTL.

But, be that as it may, 1670s:

From France
  • La Grande Mademoiselle (who'd be in her forties, rich but unlikely to have kids)
  • her half-sister, Isabelle, duchesse de Guise (arch-Catholic, wannabe nun, not going to be a popular choice)
  • Louise of the Palatinate (sister to the duchesse d'Enghien, mother wants her to marry the duc de Longueville, but he died before that happened IIRC. Ended up married to the prince de Salm OTL)
  • Maria Beatrice of Modena (daughter of one of the Mazarinettes, would only work if it's after 1672
From Germany, Netherlands and Scandinavia
  • Eleonore Maria Josefa, Maria Anna Josefa and Klaudia Felizitas of Austria or Tyrol are all available depending on the time. English weather mightn't do Klaudia's health any favours though
  • Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate (if Madame lives or gives Monsieur a surviving son)
  • Charlotte Amalie or Elisabeth Henriëtte of Hesse-Kassel (her dad and Prince Rupert are army buddies IIRC), so that could mean she gets sent to London instead of Copenhagen/Berlin
  • Princesses from Saxony, Bavaria, or Brandenburg
  • The Netherlands might field Maria of Nassau (OTL Css Palatine of Kaiserslautern?)
  • Denmark has a few options available, since I'm sure the Danish court will throw over a German prince to marry a girl to the king of England.
From Italy:
  • Mostly they'd be considered as proxies for either France or Austria, but Savoy, Tuscany and Mantua are all sitting this round out.
  • Modena - I've already optioned Maria Beatrice, but her cousin, Caterina Angelica (very beautiful), OTL princesse de Carignan as well as their half-aunt, Princess Eleonora (b sometime in the 1640s) are available AFAIK, although I think Eleonora went into a convent
  • Parma has two ladies both born in the late 1630s. They'd be older, and we're offered as Habsburg proxies for Charles in the 1660s to dissuade him from a Portuguese match. One has since taken the veil IIRC.
 
Fine list, darling, nothing to add, other that some of these are not available with 1670 PoD (but available with 1663).
 
Fine list, darling, nothing to add, other that some of these are not available with 1670 PoD (but available with 1663).

Sorry, wasn't really looking at dates (as in when they were born or when they died), I was just listing off the top of my head while I was at work. Figured that 1640s girls would be a stretch (to say nothing of the Parmese girls or La Grande Mademoiselle who'd been born in the 1630s or earlier).
 
I meant that some (like OTL Queen of Denmark) are already married elsewhere by 1670.

What about her cousin, the countess of Oldenburg, Charlotte Amélie de la Trémoïlle? She was Protestant and widowed at that point, wasn't she? Might France push her as a proxy candidate?

EDIT: Sorry, according to wiki she only married in 1680
 
What about her cousin, the countess of Oldenburg, Charlotte Amélie de la Trémoïlle? She was Protestant and widowed at that point, wasn't she? Might France push her as a proxy candidate?
Theoretically yes, though I think that by 1670 death date of Catherine they will put forward first the daughters of Edward of Palatinate, then other proxy princesses, and then, maybe, will start looking into Princesses Etranger not too closely related to currently ruling family. Charlotte Amélie de la Trémoïlle may be on third tier list.
 
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