What nickname did Whigs give James Stuart?
The Exiled Prince
The King behind the Hills
The Old Pretender
The Lost Monarch
Answer
The Old Pretender was a nickname given to James Francis Edward Stuart, the son of King James II and VII, by the Whigs, a political faction that opposed the Stuart dynasty. He was considered a pretender to the British throne since he was excluded from the succession due to his father's deposition in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the subsequent Acts of Settlement, which established the Protestant Hanoverian succession.
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