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Hi everyone, this is my first attempt at a timeline. I've been lurking around for a bit and I've seen a timeline where Charles II has a son but I haven't seen one for a daughter so I'm interested in how things would go differently. I took a "Tudors and Stuarts" class last semester but as this didn't happen, I'm still going to need to lean on y'all and research.

Where the baby comes from could come about in a number of different ways - Catherine could manage to carry one of her pregnancies to term, other than being a bit on the older side for a royal bride, I haven't heard an explanation that prevents her from having children or someone could substitute one of Charles' bastards for his and Catherine's legitimate children (supposedly when she was ill, she was convinced she had given birth and Charles humored her by pretending she had so possibly this world could have the inverse of this where while ill she's convinced that she hasn't given birth, while everyone thinks she's delirious), certainly no one's going to be questioning Charles' ability to father children - but ultimately isn't important to how things play out.

What will matter, though, is when the girl is born. Charles died 1685 OTL and given that he died of an apoplectic fit a.k.a. a stroke and modern medical officials find his conditions possibly indicative of kidney dysfunction, I can't imagine him living much longer here. I think a plausible range for her birth would be 1665-1675 as Catherine would be 47 in 1685 and 37 seems like a reasonable upper limit for a successful pregnancy.
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