Pretender Collection

Letter from James Edward Stuart to Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, St Germains, 3rd May 1703. Artist: James Stuart
Letter from James Edward Stuart to Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, St Germains, 3rd May 1703. Letter from James Edward Stuart, the pretender, signed James R, to Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat

The Schleswig-Holstein Difficulty: Prince Frederick of Augustenburg, claimant to the Duchies, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The Schleswig-Holstein Difficulty: Prince Frederick of Augustenburg, claimant to the Duchies, 1864. Portrait of 'Prince Frederick Christian Augustus

Portrait d'Henri de Bourbon, ducde Bordeaux, comte de Chambord (1820-1883), 1847. Creator: John-Lewis Brown
Portrait d'Henri de Bourbon, ducde Bordeaux, comte de Chambord (1820-1883), 1847

Bolingbrokes False Homage to Richard II. at Flint Castle, 1836. Creators: Unknown
Bolingbrokes False Homage to Richard II. at Flint Castle, 1836. Henry Bolingbroke kneels before King Richard II at Flint Castle in Wales

Perkin Warbeck Reading his Confession, 1897. Creator: John Leech
Perkin Warbeck Reading his Confession, 1897. Pretender to the English throne Perkin Warbeck is ridiculed as he sits in the stocks

A Young Pretender, 1897. Creator: John Leech
A Young Pretender, 1897. Youth in a pointed hat washing up, possibly meant to represent Perkin Warbeck. From " The Comic History of England" by Gilbert Abbott A Beckett

Perkin Warbeck and his Army, 1897. Creator: John Leech
Perkin Warbeck and his Army, 1897. Pretender to the English throne Perkin Warbeck marches his rag-tag army up and down. (Warbeck (c1474-1499), who claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York

Carlos Isidro de Borbon (1788-1855), brother of King Fernando VII and Carlist pretender to the crown of Spain, by the name of Charles V, engraving, 1845

The Pretender, c1870s, (1911)
The Pretender, 1911. Pretender (1866-1878) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. From British Sports and Sportsmen Part 1. [British Sports and Sportsmen, London, 1911]

The Reverend Eleazar Williams, c1850s (1955). Williams claimed he was the lost Dauphin, the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

The Duke of Monmouth pleads for his life, 1685, (c1920). Artist: John Pettie
The Duke of Monmouth pleads for his life, 1685, (c1920). James Crofts, later Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, 1st Duke of Buccleuch (1649-1685), Pretender to throne of Scotland and England

Letter by James Francis Edward Stuart (the Old Pretender ) to the Duc de Vendome, 1710 (1865). A print from The Autograph Souvenir, A collection of Autograph Letters, Interesting Documents, &c

Letter from Charles Edward Stuart to his brother Henry Benedict, 2nd November 1784. Artist: Charles Edward Stuart
Letter from Charles Edward Stuart to his brother Henry Benedict, 2nd November 1784. Letter, written in French from Florence, by The Young Pretender under his assumed title of King Charles III

James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, recognized by some as James II of England, (1826). Artist: E Scriven
James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, recognized by some as James II of England, (1826). James, Duke of Monmouth (1649-1685), Pretender to throne of Scotland and England

They took a sad farewell of each other, 1746, (1905). Artist: As Forrest
They took a sad farewell of each other, 1746, (1905). Bonnie Prince Charlie and Flora MacDonald part. Illustration from Our Island Story by H E Marshall, published by T C & E C Jack Ltd

James, Duke of Monmouth, (1806). Artist: E Scriven
James, Duke of Monmouth, (1806). Portrait of James Crofts, later Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, 1st Duke of Buccleuch (1649-1685), Pretender to throne of Scotland and England

Last Minutes of False Dmitriy I, 1879. Artist: Karl Gottlieb Wenig
Last Minutes of False Dmitriy I, 1879. False Dmitry was the name of several impostors who laid claim to the Russian throne with Polish-Lithuanian support in the 1600s

False Dmitry takes an oath of allegiance to King Sigismund III Vasa, 1874. Artist: Nikolay Nevryov
False Dmitry takes an oath of allegiance to King Sigismund III Vasa, 1874. Sigismund III Vasa (1566-1632) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1587 until his death

James, Duke of Monmouth, (19th century). Portrait of James Crofts, later Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, 1st Duke of Buccleuch (1649-1685), Pretender to throne of Scotland and England

James, Duke of Monmouth (1649-1685), Pretender to throne of Scotland and England. Monmouth, the illegitimate son of Charles II and Lucy Walter launched a rebellion in 1685

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