2007-04-26 13:54:56 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Even the pretender?
2007-04-26 13:55:35 · update #1
Apparently 'pretender' in its context from the french derivation simply meant 'claimant'- no artifice or deception was implied. As in Bonnie Prince Charlie, pretender to the throne of GB for his father James III.
Strangely enough there was a 'great pretender' who was also 'the king'..can you name him?
2007-04-26 14:12:11 · answer #1 · answered by troothskr 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's a lot of cast aways, waiting in the wings, so to speak. Otto von Hapsburg of Austria (or Austria-Hungry). In a way, they're between a rock and hard place.
If they try to go out and get a job, they may be accused of trading upon their family name. If they sit back and do nothing, they may be accused of their ancestral aristocratic ancestry.
Some of these royal sites do more harm than good . The one listed below, to me is just a bit silly. And I say that because of the animated gifs about no republic and the corny midi music. But, it was probably created by someone sincere in their convictions.
For example, the last I heard of some of these pretenders, they were leading some unaristrocratic type lifestyles. If you follow the ends of some of these lines, it's truly said. The Tzar of Russia, the Emperor of Ethiopia, even the Kaiser left on a Dutch island estate to live out the last of his days after his Kaiserin died and he lived on for around 22 more years. Who would want this type of life?
2007-04-26 14:40:20 · answer #2 · answered by rann_georgia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You _could_ be the legimate heir to a throne that has been abolished but might someday be re-created. Ie the Pretender to the throne of Greece, or France. It is just way of saying your family was once legitimate royality.
2007-04-26 14:00:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anna Og 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Pretender is a claimant to an abolished throne or to a throne already occupied by somebody else.
All it means is that if it were ever to be open, you could claim rightful ownership.
2007-04-26 14:08:49 · answer #4 · answered by Carl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pretender, in this case, doesn't mean you're pretending to be royalty. It just means that you believe that you should get the throne occupied by someone else.
2007-04-26 14:11:09 · answer #5 · answered by cstravagante 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a giveaway to to say that you are the Pretender, that is why Pretenders never say it. They call themselves the true king. It is supporters of the other king who call you the Pretender. John Byrom made a cunning verse on this confusion:
God bless the King! (I mean our faith's defender!)
God bless! (No harm in blessing) the Pretender.
But who Pretender is, and who is King,
God bless us all! That's quite another thing!
2007-04-26 21:23:07 · answer #6 · answered by Retired 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the other people who say that. The person describes themselves as the Claimant
2007-04-26 17:56:53 · answer #7 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, all these people with pretensions sound like proper counts.
But then I never could spell.
2007-04-26 17:14:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋