WI: Maria Theresa of Spain, Queen of France had all her children survive?

Louis XIV of France (b.1638: d.1715) m. Maria Theresa of Spain (b.1638: d.1683) (a), Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (b.1635: d.1719) (b)

1a) Louis de Bourbon, le Grand Dauphin (b.1661: d.1711) m. Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria (b.1660: d.1690) (a), Marie Émilie de Joly de Choin (b.1670: d.1732) (b)

1a) Louis de Bourbon, Dauphin of France (b.1682: d.1712)

2a) Philippe de Bourbon, Duc de Berry (b.1683: d.1746)

3a) Charles de Bourbon, Duc de Alençon, and Angoulême, Count of Ponthieu (b.1686)

4b) Unnamed Son (b.1695: d.1697)​

2a) Anne-Élisabeth de Bourbon, Madame Royale (b.1662: d.1719) m. Charles II of Spain (b.1661: d.1700) (a), p. Pedro Sánchez de Tagle, 2nd Marquis of Altamira (b.1661: d.1723) (b)

1b) Charles III of Spain (b.1692)

2b) Miscarriage (c.1695)​

3a) Marie-Anne de Bourbon, Fille de France (b.1664: d.1690) m. Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine (b.1661: d.1742) (a)

1a) Miscarriage (c.1680)

2a) Miscarriage (c.1682)

3a) Miscarriage (c.1683)

4a) Stillborn Boy (c.1685)

5a) Marie Charlotte of Neuburg (b.1686: d.1688)

6a) Miscarriage (c.1688)

7a) Miscarriage (c.1689)

8a) Stillborn Boy (c.1690)​

4a) Marie-Thérèse de Bourbon, Fille de France (b.1667) m. Louis Armand I, Prince of Conti (b.1661: d.1685) (a), Odoardo Farnese, Hereditary Prince of Parma (b.1666: d.1693) (b), Francesco Farnese (b.1678: d.1727)

1a) Louis Philippe II, Prince of Conti (b.1683)

2b) Francesco Felipe Farnese, Duke of Parma (b.1689)

3b) Elisabeth Farnese (b.1692)​

5a) Philippe Charles de Bourbon, Duke of Anjou (b.1668: d.1689) m. Maria Anna of Neuburg (b.1667: d.1740) (a)

1a) Louise Aphrodite de Bourbon (b.1686: d.1689)

2a) Marie-Christine de Bourbon (b.1687)

3a) Louis Auguste de Bourbon, Duke of Anjou (b.1690)​

6a) Louis François de Bourbon, Duke of Aquitaine (b.1672: d.1730) m. Benedetta Maria Ernesta d'Este (b.1697: d.1777) (a)

1a) Anne-Therese de Bourbon (b.1725)

2a) Miscarriage (c.1727)

3a) Louis Orlando de Bourbon (b.1728: d.1728)

4a) Louise-Felicite de Bourbon (b.1730)​
 
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Anne-Élisabeth de Bourbon, Queen of Spain

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Marie-Anne de Bourbon, Electress Palatine​

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Marie-Thérèse de Bourbon, Princess of Conti

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Philippe Charles de Bourbon, Duke of Anjou

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Louis François de Bourbon, Duke of Aquitaine
 
Anne-Élisabeth de Bourbon, Queen of Spain (1662-1719)

Born in the middle of November in 1662, Anne-Élisabeth de Bourbon entered the world at the Palais du Louvre in Paris. A sturdy, large infant, she was named after her paternal and maternal grandmothers. The young Fille de France was given the title Madame Royale and in 1663 was engaged to marry the Infante Carlos, Prince of Asturias, who was a year elder to her. From that point on the young girl was referred to as the Princess of Asturias and even Queen of Spain by some people at the court. This group of people grew to include the entirety of the court after the rise of her betrothed to the Spanish Throne in 1665.

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Anne-Élisabeth de Bourbon, Madame Royale

She left for Madrid in 1670, aged 10 and flanked by her favourite cousin Marie Louise d'Orléans, who would later marry the Prince François-Eugène de Savoie, who visited the Spanish court at the behest of his mother in 1677. However, at this point she served as her cousin's favourite in the stifling Spanish Court, where the high spirited and beautiful Anne-Élisabeth de Bourbon would complain about the filth of the court and her infantile husband. Even after their marriage was apparently 'consummated' in 1676 Anne-Élisabeth made it known to her friend that there would not be an heir to the Spanish Throne. And thus the Queen began her first affair sometime in 1678, aged 16, with her cousin's husband François-Eugène de Savoie.

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Anne-Élisabeth de Bourbon, Queen of France

The new Queen immediately clashed with her mother-in-law, the Queen Dowager Mariana of Austria, who was driven from the court in 1679 by the Queen and her current lover Juan of Austria, who supported her during the next 3 years until Mariana's death under mysterious circumstances in 1682. During this time, as her cousin has left to return to France the year prior with her husband, the Queen took to the companionship in the scandalous Olympia Mancini.

She kept her husband enthralled through her many false pregnancies, which she admitted in a letter to a favourite were all false throughout the 1680s, as she made sure to had no opportunity to fall pregnant by her lovers. Carlos, meanwhile, remained fully in love with his Queen. The King would, in fact, delight in the evenings that Anne-Élisabeth de Bourbon would spend with him, reading from the bible or enjoying a simple supper. In fact, the couple on both sides felt affection, though on the side of the Queen it was a more maternal, pitying one. But finally, in 1691, she met Pedro Sánchez de Tagle, the 2nd Marquis of Altamira.

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Anne-Élisabeth de Bourbon, Queen of Spain

This Marquis had been away from the court for many years in New Spain, but now arrived back to Spain and immediately the Queen became quite enamoured. The swashbuckling Marquis enthralled the King with his stories of the New World and after Carlos was told that he owned the lands that now filled his dreams, it took all the powers of Queen Anne-Élisabeth to prevent him from announcing a tour of those lands. The relationship of between Pedro Sánchez and Anne-Élisabeth evidently was quite far along as o the 16th of February, 1692, the Queen announced a pregnancy, ostensibly her husband's. Aged 29 (to be 30 that year), many looked to the suddenly disappeared Pedro, who had retired from the court a month earlier to marry a lady-in-waiting to the Queen and the youngest, unmarried daughter of Olympia Mancini, Louise Philiberte of Savoy.

On the 19th of August, 1692, Carlos Felipe Pedro Juan de Spain, Prince of Asturias was born. The King, oblivious to the fact that this child could not possibly be his own, celebrated enthusiastically and at the return of the Marquis asked what his friend thought of his son, to which Pedro replied:

"...I love him as if he was my own..."


And the Marquis would remain in Spain until late 1694, when he had to return to New Spain to look after his interests there, even after the Queen offered him estates near Madrid to ensure he stayed. He left with the two sons that his bride had already given him but left his only daughter, Anna Isabella de Tagle, who would die a year and a half after his departure. Soon after, the Queen discovered her lover had left her with a second gift in the shape of a second pregnancy that ended in a miscarriage in March of 1695.

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Anne-Élisabeth de Bourbon, Queen of Spain

The Queen of Spain had her son betrothed in 1699 to Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, the niece of her favoured cousin, who had recently died earlier that year in childbirth to yet another stillborn son (one of 8). However, the Princess of Orleans was eventually removed from the betrothal due to her new betrothal to the Duke of Berry. Instead, Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans was offered as an alternative, which was agreed to for the time being. However, after her husband's death in November of 1700 and thus the accession of her son, she moved the betrothal from the Orleans girl to Élisabeth Charlotte de Lorraine, which lasted until the girl's death in 1711.

The next choice was made in 1713 for Carlos III of Spain to marry the Infanta Francisca Josefa of Portugal as a way of fully reconciling with the Portuguese. The 21 year old King had technically attained his majority in 1705, however the Queen Dowager had ruled since then still, acting as his regent as he spent his time reading and pining over a portrait of his dead betrothed. However, Francisca Josepha proved a positive influence on the King and by 1717 she had given birth to twin girls, named Anna Catarina and Isabella Juliana, who would be followed by 7 siblings over the rest of their union until the unfortunate death of Francisca in 1733. Meanwhile, Queen Dowager Anne-Élisabeth de Bourbon suffered from ill health from 1718 onwards and, after a particularly indulgent night, she died of a heart attack in 1719.

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Anne-Élisabeth de Bourbon, Queen Dowager of Spain

Anne-Élisabeth de Bourbon, Madame Royale (b.1662: d.1719) m. Carlos II of Spain (b.1661: d.1700) (a), p. Pedro Sánchez de Tagle, 2nd Marquis of Altamira (b.1661: d.1723) (b)
1b) Charles III of Spain (b.1692: d.1749) m. Francisca Josefa of Portugal (b.1699: d.1733) (a)

1a) Anna Catarina de Spain (b.1717)

2a) Isabella Juliana de Spain (b.1717)

3a) Juana Carolina de Spain (b.1718: d.1719)

4a) Carlos IV of Spain (b.1720)

5a) Miscarriage (c.1722)

6a) Gabriel Pedro de Spain (b.1725)

7a) Stillborn Boy (c.1725)

8a) Maria Sophia de Spain (b.1728)

9a) Miscarriage (c.1730)

10a) Juan Felipe Ferdinand de Spain (b.1732: d.1732)​

2b) Miscarriage (c.1695)​
 
Bearing in mind the fate of the La Beltraneja and the mess caused by Isabel II's lovers, I bet that if that happened (and in the Spanish court secrets hardly existed), the queen would get kicked back to France. First her head, then the rest of the body, of course.
 
It would have been more plausible to have Queen have a pseudo-legitimate child say with Don Juan Jose - first, chlid gets some plausibly Habsburg looks, second, a father is a person of high enough status to invent cover ups instead of random courtier (as of now it looks like dumb subplot in the Man in Iron Mask movie (the one with Di Caprio) where D'Artagnan was allegedly the real dad of Louis XIV and his twin), third, it will happen soon enough in marriage to can plausibly be passed as a child of the king.

When I used the same subplot in Duchess of Cumberland TL (an illegitimate child of Spanish Queen being passed as the child of Carlos II), the legitimacy of the child was put in question from the start by anyone and everyone interested.

An unrelated nitpick - why the hell you have a LEGITIMATE daugter of the King to marry Prince of Conti? He was the most junior (actually second most junior, senior only to his younger brother) of French princes of blood, and the match is nonsensical (good for bastard, bullshit for legit Princess). It's better to have her marry a Farnese from the start.
Also, I do believe that Duke of Aquitaine has good odds to marry the Princess of Beira- her mom would not be against the French Prince who does not drag Portugal into any personal union. Portuguese Bourbons anyone?
 
It would have been more plausible to have Queen have a pseudo-legitimate child say with Don Juan Jose - first, chlid gets some plausibly Habsburg looks, second, a father is a person of high enough status to invent cover ups instead of random courtier (as of now it looks like dumb subplot in the Man in Iron Mask movie (the one with Di Caprio) where D'Artagnan was allegedly the real dad of Louis XIV and his twin), third, it will happen soon enough in marriage to can plausibly be passed as a child of the king.

When I used the same subplot in Duchess of Cumberland TL (an illegitimate child of Spanish Queen being passed as the child of Carlos II), the legitimacy of the child was put in question from the start by anyone and everyone interested.

An unrelated nitpick - why the hell you have a LEGITIMATE daugter of the King to marry Prince of Conti? He was the most junior (actually second most junior, senior only to his younger brother) of French princes of blood, and the match is nonsensical (good for bastard, bullshit for legit Princess). It's better to have her marry a Farnese from the start.
Also, I do believe that Duke of Aquitaine has good odds to marry the Princess of Beira- her mom would not be against the French Prince who does not drag Portugal into any personal union. Portuguese Bourbons anyone?

Ok, I'll take this into account and redo some parts of this. :D
 
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