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The Pretender Prince

Noble Blood

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Perkin Warbeck's Confession

Perkin Warbeck declared that he must be the missing prince. Henry VII treated him with almost shocking grace. Warbeck is brought to court, and even though he is kept under guard, he's brought along to royal banquets. The name Perkin Warbeck would become so synonymous with pretender to the throne that 150 years after Warbeck's death, anti-Jacobite propaganda would refer to the young pretender as Perkin.

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