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A pretender is an aspirant or claimant to a throne that either has been abolished or is presently occupied by another. It should be immediately distinguished from the term impostor, which instead refers to a person who exercises deception under an assumed name or identity. A pretender professes a claim under his own name, and the term is also applied to those persons on whose behalf a claim is advanced, regardless of whether that person himself makes the claim.