What does «pretendiente al trono» mean in Spanish?
- Describes the prince who claims to have some rights to occupy a throne. Most often, it refers to a former monarch, or descendant thereof, whose throne is occupied or claimed by a rival or has been suppressed. History has witnessed a large number of claimants, who have often tried to assert their rights by recourse to arms, intrigues or actual wars of succession, often ending with dynastic settlements, usually through marriage. From ancient Egypt to Europe in the last century, because of disputes over the interpretation of the law of inheritance or due to unilateral changes of the same, there have been situations with multiple aspirants to the same throne.