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IOTL Philip the Handsome and Joanna the Mad had 06 children. Four of them were girls (Eleanor, Queen of Portugal and France; Isabella, Queen of Denmark; Mary, Queen of Hungary; and Catherine, Queen of Portugal). The two boys (Charles and Ferdinand) divided the Habsburgs territories between them, with Spain, Italy and Netherlands going to Charles' branch and Austria and the Empire to Ferdinand's.

But WI the proportion had been the opposite, and the couple had 04 boys (let's call them Charles, Ferdinand, Maximilian and Philip) and two girls (Eleanor and Isabella). How would the Habsburg territories have been divided between four heirs? Could we see an independent branch in Netherlands?
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