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
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.
His forefathers were small yeoman farmers, who had risked themselves in the cause of the Young Pretender: they had a certain amount of family pride and family tradition.
From A Day with the Poet Burns by Anonymous
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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