Young Pretender
Americannoun
noun
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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
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
The denunciation of the Young Pretender was not an easy matter even in Ida’s eyes.
From That Stick by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Now there was a new Stuart in the field, a new sham prince, a "Young Pretender."
From A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by Justin McCarthy
And there was a prized thing of his boyhood there, a dagger the Young Pretender wore in his stocking, and he in Highland dress, as he swung toward London with pipe and drum.
From The Wind Bloweth by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
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