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Young Pretender

American  
Young Pretender British  

noun

  1. See (Charles Edward) Stuart

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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This was the royal house of Stuart, in the glittering person and presence of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Young Pretender and son of the exiled Stuart King James III.

From Time Magazine Archive

Author Mackenzie's is not a formal history of the Young Pretender but a series of portraits of the women who made up a large part of his life.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each one vol., library 12mo, cloth decorative $1.50 The Flight of Georgiana A Romance of the Days of the Young Pretender.

From The Passenger from Calais by Griffiths, Arthur

The "Young Pretender" fled from the battlefield to the Hebrides.

From The Leading Facts of English History by Montgomery, D. H. (David Henry)

House in which the Young Pretender took Refuge after the Battle of Culloden, Roscoff.

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.

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