Young Pretender
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
In "The Dangerous Guest" she is in the time of the Young Pretender, and in "The Eriksons," "The Clever Boy," and "Our Uncle the Traveller," she wanders far and wide.
From Granny's Wonderful Chair & Its Tales of Fairy Times by Browne, Frances
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
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 McCarthy, Justin
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