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the Young Pretender Definition


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the Young Pretender
noun
    1. A nickname for Charles Edward Stuart (1720‐88).
Etymology: 18c: so called because he pretended to (ie claimed) the British throne; his father, James Francis Edward (1688‐1766), son of James II, was called the Old Pretender.



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