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So a woefully overlooked character in history (and althistory) is the younger sister of the famed Maria Theresia, Maria Anna Eleonora Wilhelmina of Austria (1718-1744). Overlooked in marriage too, since she was always part of a package deal in the sense of she would marry a younger brother of whoever married her sister.

Finally, she died in childbed with her first and only child (who also died). What might the results have been if she hadn't died so young (leaving her husband a disconsolate widower until his own death 36 years later) and become mother to a brood of children much like her sister. Would these kids also be Hapsburg archdukes or mere princes of Lorraine? What might the future of the Austrian Netherlands look like with at least part of the ruling family in permanent residence?

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