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In a play for power over the heirs-apparent to the Throne, she got into very hot water; one of her lovers, the Abbe Fouquet, betrayed her attempt as part of a conspiracy against the Throne.

From Time Magazine Archive

As only two of the heirs-apparent were married, and only one of them had a child, the race promised to be interesting.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was the strongest pattern of a monarch of this age, and I see no promise of his equal, either in the incumbents or the heirs-apparent of the other thrones of Europe.”

From Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties by d'Auvergne, Edmund B.

His father was the king of a little flourishing prison of desks, and Mike was one of the heirs-apparent.

From Young Lives by Le Gallienne, Richard

Two of the sovereigns or heirs-apparent present were Roman Catholics, one was a Protestant, and one a Mohammedan.

From France in the Nineteenth Century by Latimer, Elizabeth