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 "Young Pretender" fled from the battlefield to the Hebrides.
From The Leading Facts of English History by Montgomery, D. H. (David Henry)
It is said he had previously been sent to Italy to collect arms and ammunition for the "Young Pretender," the grandson of James II.
From As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Gouverneur, Marian
She was a Miss Murray, and came of good Scottish blood, her great-grandfather having at one time been private secretary to the Young Pretender.
From Records of a Girlhood by Kemble, Fanny
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