I don't think I have to tell anyone here who Catherine the Great is so I'll get right to the point. Catherine took many lovers but never remarried. Probably to help reserve her rights on the throne. So my question is what if she had decided to remarry, and for arguments sake openly, not a secret husband like Empress Elizabeth had. Who would she marry? One of her lovers? A foreign Prince? Perhaps even the deposed Ivan VI? And assuming she had children what would happen to them? Would they have rights to the throne? Would they be Grand Dukes and Grand Duchesses? Would they still be called Romanovs? Would Paul be conveniently done away with?