previous heir

Why else would he attempt to bind up old wounds by marrying Lady Anne, the widow of the previous heir to the throne?

Grandson of Elizabeth Griffin, née Latimer, sister of the previous heirs.

There was no comparable effort to build up Mr. Deng's previous heirs apparent, Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang.

He became the heir to Franz Josef in 1914, when the previous heir, Karl's uncle Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was assassinated along with his wife.

On 10 May 1955, Buckingham Palace announced that The Prince would go to school, rather than have a private tutor as had previous Heirs to The Throne.

They were both included in the new will, which excluded his son-in-laws, which had been his previous heirs, specially Ivar Axelsson, whom he had previously appointed his successor.

Franz Ferdinand refused to renounce Sophie to marry a princess and beget an heir to the throne, compounding the scandal surrounding the death and illicit affair of the emperor's previous heir.

He was styled Earl of Burlington before his father's succession to the Dukedom of Devonshire, and has not assumed the title Marquess of Hartington as have previous heirs to the Dukedom.

Ahmad Shah, Crown Prince of Afghanistan (born 23 September 1934) the second son of Mohammed Zahir Shah, the former King of Afghanistan, and the previous heir apparent to the throne of Afghanistan.

Despite his coronation at Avignon as King of Naples by Antipope Clement VII, Louis was forced to remain in France and Joan's troops were defeated by Charles of Durazzo, her second cousin and previous heir.

In the Grand Principality of Serbia, Stefan Nemanja abdicates in 1196, giving the rule to his middle son Stefan II, while his eldest son and previous heir presumptive Vukan continues to rule his appanage on the Adriatic coast.