Historical examples of replacing blood heir by impostor?

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Sweden in 1810 - 1818. The monarch legally adopted a French general as the official heir. It took generations for the resulting rift between dynastic factions to be healed by a royal marriage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Bernadotte

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It was often alleged that a disliked monarch was not who he claimed to be, that his alleged parents, despairing of having real children, pretended to have a child that was really unrelated. Thus the births of royal children were often very public with many high ranking witnesses, and yet despite that a monarch's enemies would continue to claim that he was a false child.

Examples: Emperor Frederick II and King James VIII and III aka The Old Pretender.

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