However, he had several half-brothers who were competing for the role of heir presumptive.

But when the heir presumptive makes a public idiot of himself before half a planet!

The office-holder was considered the heir presumptive and second only to the King.

He was briefly the heir presumptive for about six months in 1400 when his father became king.

Cao Pi thus became the presumptive heir to his father.

This was the first, and so far only time in British history, that the heir presumptive to the throne had been married.

He was her heir presumptive until she married and had a child.

After his father's death in 1490 he became heir presumptive of Muscovy.

So Marselius did not entirely trust his own son and presumptive heir.

Nowhere else in the country are there three presumptive heirs for a major office.