Old Pretender
Americannoun
noun
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Dempster, 40, is a gossip columnist for the London Daily Mail, and throughout, if Margaret is the Disappointed Princess, he is the Old Pretender, stating the loftiest intentions, then betraying them with yet another innuendo.
From Time Magazine Archive
Spirited off to France, the traduced infant became "the Old Pretender."
From Time Magazine Archive
Clementina's marriage with Pretender James was a runaway to romance that turned into a drab political alliance; the Old Pretender was not the glamorous figure his son turned out to be.
From Time Magazine Archive
The personality of James Stuart, the Old Pretender, was little more than a memory among those clansmen who had rallied round the royal standard at Braemar.
From A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by Justin McCarthy
The Old Pretender did not marry until 1718, when he was united to the Princess Clementina Maria, daughter of Prince James Sobieski.
From The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift
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