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Claimants to Royalty

by John Ingram

A compilation of chronicles of the numerous impostors and impostures of kings, queens, and rulers. The list of claimants to the thrones of defunct monarchs is a lengthy one, the chronicles of nearly every civilized country affording more or less numerous instances of the appearance of these pretenders to royalty.

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English

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English

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1882

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John Ingram

United States

John Henry Ingram was an English biographer and editor with a special interest in Edgar Allan Poe. Ingram was born at 29 City Road, Finsbury Square, Middlesex, and died at Brighton, England. His fami...

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