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THE TRUE "KING OVER THE WATER"; Andrew Lang and Miss Shield Rehabilitate "The Old Pretender" -- Thackeray's Picture a False One. IN OLD NEW ENGLAND. Share full article. Jan. 25, 1908.
The Old Pretender's son Charles Edward Stuart — the "Young Pretender" — landed in Scotland in July 1745 to reclaim the thrones of England, ...
In Manhattan the 72-ft. gaff-rigged ketch Saltillo arrived from Nassau, skippered by strapping Don Juan de Bourbon y Battenberg, Count of Barcelona and 44-year-old Pretender to the Spanish crown.