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The word '''pretender''' has several different meanings:
:''This page is about the word Pretender as it applies to a ], for other meanings see ].''


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A '''Pretender''' is a claimant to an abolished or already occupied ]. ] are not seen as pretenders, as the term only applies to those who have ''never'' occupied the throne.
*"'''The Great Pretender'''", a ] by ] ()
*''''']''''', an album and song by ]
*'''The Pretender''', then name of a former ] show on the ] network
*''']''', a ] group.


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==Some modern pretenders==

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State</th>
<th rowspan=1 style="border-bottom:4px solid black;" valign="top">
Pretender</th>
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Link to Past Monarchy</th>
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<td>]</td>
<td>Crown Prince ]</td>
<td>Son of the last Emperor-King, ]</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>]</td>
<td>Crown Prince ]</td>
<td>Son of the last king, ]</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>]</td>
<td>] (Orleanist-Legitimist*: generally accepted)</td>
<td>descendant of ]</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>]</td>
<td>] (Legitimist: minority support)</td>
<td>descendant of ]</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>] and ]</td>
<td>]</td>
<td>descendant of the last Emperor, ]</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>]</td>
<td>Crown Prince ]</td>
<td>Son of the last King-Emperor, ]</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>]</td>
<td>The ]</td>
<td>Ireland's senior gaelic peer & descendant of the last Irish ] Rory O'Connor</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>]</td>
<td>Crown Prince ]</td>
<td>Son of the last king, ]</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>]</td>
<td>]</td>
<td>Descendant of the last king, ]</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>]</td>
<td>The ]</td>
<td>distant relative of the last king ]</td>
</tr>

<td>] and ]</td>
<td>]</td>
<td>son of the last king, ]</td>
</tr>

</table>

==French Pretenders==

Following the death of the childless legitimist pretender 'Henry V', ], grandson of King ] in the 1880s, the majority of Legitimists accepted the Comte's selection as heir, the Orleanist pretender, the ], grandson of King ] as the Legitimist pretender to the French throne. A small minority refused to accept this designation, and chose instead a ''very'' distant Spanish-based descendant of an earlier monarch. Hence there are in effect ''two'' legitimist pretenders, though the Orleanist pretender, the modern Comte de Paris, is generally accepted by most French monarchists as ''the'' pretender, as the list above shows.

==Russian Pretenders==

There is much debate over whom is the legitmate heir to the Russian throne. ] is considered by some to be the legitimate heir, being the grandson of a cousin of Czar ]. However, the Grand Duke's mother, ] also claims to be the rightful heir to the throne. The massacre of the ]s that followed the ] has made tracking a legitimate hier to the Russian throne very difficult, and some believe there is no legitimate heir at all.

==Fake pretenders==

Some well-known ] who claimed to be a genuine pretender include:

*Various impersonators of ], notably ]
* The fake ], whose real name probably was ]
* ], who claimed to be ]
* ], who claimed to be ]
* The three ]s of Russia
* ], who claimed to be ]
* ], a.k.a. ], who claims to be the ] heir to the Scottish throne

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