" Shortly thereafter, Gerry Mcilduff was replaced on drums by Martin Chambers, and Hynde named the band " Pretenders " after The Platters song " The Great Pretender.

He closes his `` letter '' by demanding that Dunkirk be demolished, that the Pretender be forced to move farther away from the coast of England, and that the Queen and the House of Hanover come to a better understanding.

In 1708 James Francis Edward Stuart, who became known as " The Old Pretender ," attempted an invasion with a French fleet, but the Royal Navy prevented any from landing.

* 1499 – Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London.

The Sword Blade company arranged to spread a rumour that the Pretender himself had been captured, and the general euphoria encouraged the South Sea share price to rise from £ 100 where it had been in the spring to £ 114.

On 8 April 1746, he set out from Aberdeen for Inverness, and, on 16 April, he fought the decisive Battle of Culloden, in which the forces of the Young Pretender were completely destroyed.

The march of the Jacobite army into northern England caused the Wentworth household to flee to Doncaster and Rockingham rode from Wentworth to Carlisle to join the Duke of Cumberland in pursuit of the " Young Pretender ".

The singles from the album were " Here Come Those Tears Again " which reached number 23 and " The Pretender " which peaked at number 58.

Following the birth of the Catholic James II's only son James Francis Edward Stuart (" The Old Pretender "), the English establishment determined to avoid the possibility of a Catholic dynasty on the English throne by engineering the Glorious Revolution, when the throne was offered to the older of James's two Protestant daughters from his first marriage and her husband, the Stadhouder of Holland, who uniquely reigned as co-monarchs, William III ( 1688 – 1702 ) and Mary II ( 1688 – 1694 ).

The pianist even quotes the first six notes from Shearing's classic piece " Lullaby of Birdland ," before getting back to playing " Great Pretender.

He was also the Jacobite Pretender as Robert I and IV, from 1919 until his death.

It is reputed to be a friendly swipe at Jackson Browne, whose songs ( such as " Here Come Those Tears Again " and " Sleeps Dark and Silent Gate " from The Pretender ) could be quite dark.

In the U. S. comics, Starscream went on from his rebirth as a Pretender to join up with Shockwave in instigating the Decepticon Civil War, and was transported to Cybertron along with all the other Transformers in preparation for the battle against Unicron.

Following the failure of the Jacobite rising of 1715, the Jacobites, supporters of the exiled James Stuart, the " Old Pretender ", sought new support from Spain.

John Walkinshaw escaped from Stirling Castle by changing clothes with his wife, and made for the Old Pretender in Avignon ; later he acted as the Prince's envoy in discussions for his marriage to Princess Clementina Sobieska.

He was also the Jacobite Pretender from 1840 until his death.

The Duchy of Athens was not the first loss in his family: Walter's grandfather had been rejected from the succession of the kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus, and his great-great-grandfather had been Pretender of the throne of Sicily, as husband of the sister of William III of Sicily.

Later, James was called " the Old Pretender ", to distinguish him from his son, Charles Edward Stuart ( 1720 – 1788 ), who became known as " the Young Pretender ".

A list of clans that " came out " to join the Pretender, or were prevented from doing so, is given below.

Some chieftains who were trying or planning to raise their clan for the Pretender were stopped or even imprisoned, notably Sir James Campbell of Auchnabreck and Alexander MacDougall of Dunollie, who were stopped from raising Clan Campbell of Auchnabreck and Clan MacDougall by Campbell of Argyll, and Sir Hector MacLean and Dugald MacTavish of Dunardry, who would have raised Clan MacLean and Clan MacTavish had they not been imprisoned by the government.

The two singles from this album were " Pretender Got my Heart " and " Push it all Aside ".

After she recorded the track in December 1983, " Downtown " appeared on Parton's album of covers of hits from the 1950s and 1960s, The Great Pretender.

A number of members of Parliament welcomed Windsor's marriage in 2006 as " the first legal and public marriage within the rites of the Roman Catholic Church of a member of the Royal Family since 1554 and the marriage of Queen Mary I to Philip II of Spain " and then later proposed a further Early Day Motion welcoming the Baptism of his first son Albert noting " that he was the first member of the Royal Family to be Baptised a Catholic since 1688 and the so-called Glorious Revolution when James II was chased away from his Crown and country on account of the Baptism of his son, the Old Pretender.

*" The Pretender " ( 1 episode, 2000 ) " Ghosts from the Past "

Twenty-five were created between 1688 and 1784 by James II in exile after his dethronement, by his son James Stuart (" The Old Pretender ") and his grandson Charles Edward Stuart (" Bonny Prince Charlie ").

The two putti with reddish hair who accompany her may be representations of the two Stuart Princes living in exile, Charles ( Bonnie Prince Charlie-the ' Young Pretender ') and Henry Stuart, who were children at the time the painting was executed.

During his stay in Rome Rockingham noted that amongst Englishmen Whigs outnumbered Jacobites four-to-one and there were " no Persons of rank about the Pretender " and that " the vile spirit of Jacobitism " was greatly declining.

They were poised to march into England where they expected a mass Jacobite rebellion to break out that would topple George II and his Hanoverian Dynasty and replace them with the Old Pretender ' James III '.

Both his parents were strong supporters of the Jacobite cause, and his older brother James followed " The Old Pretender " into exile.

He also used the beatnik musician theme in a parody of " The Great Pretender ," the hit by The Platters — who, like Ray and Belafonte ( see both above ) and Welk ( see below ), were not pleased.

In April 1716, two Jacobite earldoms of Jersey were created by the Old Pretender, the first for the widow of the first Earl of the 1697 creation, and the other for their eldest son ( who succeeded as second Earl of the 1697 creation ) with the subsidiary titles Viscount Dartford and Baron Hoo.

In 1712, two years before the death of Queen Anne, at a time when both parties were making secret overtures to the Old Pretender, Centlivre took an explicit pro-Hanoverian position in public.

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Szigligeti's most successful tragedies were Gritti ( 1844 ), Paul Beldi ( 1856 ), Light's Shadows ( 1865 ), Struensee ( i & ii ), Valeriaa and The Pretender ( 1868 ).

Several of these pretenders, notably James II for the last 12 years of his life and his son, the Old Pretender, until the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, were actually pensioners of Louis XIV at the very time they were claiming his title.

In 1715, during the Jacobite Uprising the supporters of the Old Pretender were marching on Preston.

The son of James VII, James Francis Edward Stuart ( the Old Pretender ), was recognised by the Holy See as the legitimate monarch of the Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Scotland, and the separate Kingdom of Ireland until his death in January 1766, and Roman Catholics were morally obliged to support him.

At this point, before Prime and Megatron were marooned on Earth, Thunderwing already had his Pretender shell.

In 2006, Jetfire and the Technobots investigated an energy spike at Thunderhead Pass and discovered a small cult, led by Bludgeon and consisting of several other Decepticons ( all of whom were amongst the Pretender toys ).

Both groups were contacting the Old Pretender about bringing the Young Pretender over.

Exceptions included The Platters, with songs including " The Great Pretender " ( 1955 ) and The Coasters with humorous songs like " Yakety Yak " ( 1958 ), both of which ranked among the most successful rock and roll acts of the era.

James Francis Edward Stuart was known to those who rejected his claims as " The Old Pretender "; his elder son Charles was called " The Young Pretender " ( or " Bonnie Prince Charlie " among his supporters ), and the younger son, Henry, who became a Roman Catholic cardinal, was known as the Cardinal Duke of York.

The court of the Pretender attracted those Jacobites, and their Tory sympathizers, whose political activity precluded them staying safely in Great Britain ; notable among them was Swift's friend, the Anglican Bishop of Rochester Francis Atterbury, who was exiled to France in 1722.

On the other side of the spectrum, R & B-influenced acts like The Crows, The Penguins, The El Dorados and The Turbans all scored major hits, and groups like The Platters, with songs including " The Great Pretender " ( 1955 ), and The Coasters with humorous songs like " Yakety Yak " ( 1958 ), ranked among the most successful rock and roll acts of the period.

Acts like The Crows, The Penguins, The El Dorados and The Turbans all scored major hits, and groups like The Platters, with songs including " The Great Pretender " ( 1955 ), and The Coasters with humorous songs like " Yakety Yak " ( 1958 ), ranked among the most successful rock and roll acts of the period.