Young Pretender
Americannoun
noun
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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
Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir, known as the "Young Pretender," also as the "Young Chevalier" and "Bonnie Prince Charlie," was born in Rome in 1720.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 by Rudd, John
The "Young Pretender" fled from the battlefield to the Hebrides.
From The Leading Facts of English History by Montgomery, D. H. (David Henry)
The Young Pretender stayed in it in 1743, and the duke of 35 Cumberland in 1746.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
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