page_title: Young kings of England
hierarchical_section_title: Young kings of England
caption_attribution_description: English: Left: Coronation of Henry the Young King by the Archbishop Roger of York (14 June 1170) Right: Henry II serves his son at the coronation feast. (The occasion inspired a famous anecdote about the banquet. Henry II wanted to serve his son in person. He approached the dias carrying what was with all probability the wild boar's head (the chief decoration of the high table, usual crowning of Christmas feasts and other festive dinners of the nobility) saying that it was not every day that a prince was served by a king. His freshly crowned son replied that it was nothing unusual for the son of a count to serve the king. - [1])
context_page_description: Since the reign of the first kings of England the question of who should rule next has been hard to answer. Examples of this are when Edward the Elder died leaving two sons Aelfward and Athelstan, but Aelfward died 28 days after Edward leaving the throne to Athelstan. But when a king picked his successor in the 1100's it was known as the young king. The next king, the prince of Wales usually got to reign as the young king of England before his ascension but both of the young/junior/titular kings never ascended to the throne.
  The young kings of England in order of reign were:
  Eustace IV, son of Stephen as titular king
  Henry the Young, son of Henry II as young king
  Ever since Henry the Young the next in line has never been crowned as young king and just simply prince of Wales or just titled as "the rightful heir to the English throne".
context_section_description: Since the reign of the first kings of England the question of who should rule next has been hard to answer. Examples of this are when Edward the Elder died leaving two sons Aelfward and Athelstan, but Aelfward died 28 days after Edward leaving the throne to Athelstan. But when a king picked his successor in the 1100's it was known as the young king. The next king, the prince of Wales usually got to reign as the young king of England before his ascension but both of the young/junior/titular kings never ascended to the throne.
  The young kings of England in order of reign were:
  Eustace IV, son of Stephen (1152-1153) as titular king
  Henry the Young, son of Henry II (1170-1183) as young king
  Ever since Henry the Young the next in line has never been crowned as young king and just simply prince of Wales or just titled as "the rightful heir to the English throne".
  For kings of England, see List of English monarchs.
caption: Coronation of Henry the young, 14th of June 1170.
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