Old Pretender

American  

noun

1. Stuart, James Francis Edward.

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Old Pretender British  

noun

1. See (James Francis Edward) Stuart

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Example Sentences

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 McCarthy, Justin

And in truth, if the Old Pretender were really the son of King James,—well, it might be more difficult to say what a man’s duty would be in that case.

From Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow by Holt, Emily Sarah