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Points of divergence pertaining to the history of the House of Bourbon, one of Europe's most long-lived and most famous ruling families, with many offshoots.

Plausibility check: A Capetian or Bourbon ruler of a Rus state (e.g. in today's Ukraine)

A Bourbon Queen for the Union of Kalmar

Challenge: A Valois England and Bourbon France

Plausibility check: Could a Valois Spain coexist with a Bourbon France ?

The Duke of Bourbon does not rebel in 1523

WI Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, survives (in 1527) and has a surviving son ?

WI: Henry VIII's sister, Mary Tudor, marries a Bourbon or Valois

WI: Henri IV’s first marriage

Plausibility check: The Bourbons leading the Holy Roman Empire instead of the Habsburgs

Plausibility check: Could a Valois Spain coexist with a Bourbon France ?

WI Cardinal Charles II de Bourbon Vendome escapes imprisonmnent and becomes King ?

Henry IV Bourbon survives assassination attempt

Challenge: Make Charles de Bourbon King Charles X of France in 1584

Challenge: Bourbon Sweden or Denmark

Challenge: Bourbon England

Challenge: Bourbon Britain

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Plausibility check: The Bourbons leading the Holy Roman Empire instead of the Habsburgs

Louis XIII (House of Bourbon) question

WI Elisabeth of Bourbon, Queen of Spain, had not died in 1644 ?

Challenge: Bourbons styling themselves as French Emperors

Challenge: Bourbon Sweden or Denmark

WI: Queen Christina of Sweden marries a Bourbon

Challenge: Bourbon England

Challenge: Bourbon Britain

Plausibility check: Is a Bourbon Russia even possible ?

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A different Bourbon for the Throne of Spain

WI: Major victory for the Bourbon powers in the War of the Spanish Succession ?

Total Bourbon defeat in the War of Spanish Succession

WI: Larger House of Bourbon after 1710 ?

Plausibility check: Bourbon Franco-Spain

Plausibility check: An earlier Mexican kingdom - with a Bourbon or a Habsburg ?

A Wittelsbach south Italy instead of a Bourbon one

Plausibility check: A Bourbon Poland ?

WI the Spanish Bourbon reforms of Latin America are more successful ?

Challenge: Bourbon American monarchy

Challenge: Unite France and Spain under a Bourbon monarch no earlier than the 1770s

Challenge: A Bourbon-unified Italy

WI: A Bourbon King of Portugal

WI: Aranda plan, Bourbon America, with a twist

Challenge: Most powerful Bourbon monarchy to survive the French Revolution (with a POD no earlier than 1750) ?

WI the French royal family fled to Britain?

(Bourbon) Kingdom of Brittany

WI: Louis XVI and French royals allowed exile in North America by the French National Convention

WI: Sweden adopting the Bourbon and their children after the revolutionary exile

Successful Bourbon restoration in 1795

Challenge: A literal Bourbon US president

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Charles X restored Bourbon King of France in 1815

Challenge: Sweden under the House of Bourbon-Parma

Could the Bourbon restoration last ?

Preserve the Monarchy

Challenge: Charles X Bourbon remaims King of France

Plausibility check: House Bonaparte and Bourbon/Orleans intermarrying

No Bourbon "miracle baby"

A Bourbon Restoration in 1870 (1)

A Bourbon Restoration in 1870 (2)

A Bourbon Restoration in 1871 (1)

A Bourbon Restoration in 1871 (2)

Plausibility check: A Bourbon Romania

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Challenge: Post-war Bourbon Restoration

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Plausibility check: Bourbon dynasty for a surviving or renewed Roman Empire

DBWI: What if the Bourbon-Habsburg Revolution never accurred ?

ASB WI: Juan Carlos Bourbon wakes up as Henry of Navarre

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