Mary *writes secret letter*: Dear former potential husband Archduke Max, if you show up here right away, we're back on!
Maximilian: *to the rescue*
okay, this is AWESOME. I mean, fine, you make it clear there are other considerations. But it's also a super cute story :P Well, besides the part where she dies super early :(
and more that after his own death decades later, he'll order his heart to be buried with Mary in far away Burgundy, not in Vienna.
Me: ...what is up with these Habsburgs and their obsession with burying their body parts separately??
On Juana: WAIT, I did know about her and that she was reputed to have gone mad because she shows up as a very minor plot point in an AU SF novel I once read, only I had remembered it slightly differently, and in fact the line there was that her husband dying early caused her to go mad. OMG. At least a) it got it right that it was the fact she had a fortune (at least partially from Columbus' voyages!) that caused the marriage to Philip le Bel, and b) the minor plot point was that the AU was a fix-it where Juana married someone else entirely and didn't either go insane or have her husband declare her insane, so there's that :)
Re: War of the Spanish Succession: Netherlands: Gossipy Addenda
Mary *writes secret letter*: Dear former potential husband Archduke Max, if you show up here right away, we're back on!
Maximilian: *to the rescue*
okay, this is AWESOME. I mean, fine, you make it clear there are other considerations. But it's also a super cute story :P Well, besides the part where she dies super early :(
and more that after his own death decades later, he'll order his heart to be buried with Mary in far away Burgundy, not in Vienna.
Me: ...what is up with these Habsburgs and their obsession with burying their body parts separately??
On Juana: WAIT, I did know about her and that she was reputed to have gone mad because she shows up as a very minor plot point in an AU SF novel I once read, only I had remembered it slightly differently, and in fact the line there was that her husband dying early caused her to go mad. OMG. At least a) it got it right that it was the fact she had a fortune (at least partially from Columbus' voyages!) that caused the marriage to Philip le Bel, and b) the minor plot point was that the AU was a fix-it where Juana married someone else entirely and didn't either go insane or have her husband declare her insane, so there's that :)