A Sicilian crown for a ten-year-oldSourced
A pope offered Sicily's throne to an English child who never went there.
In 1254, the papacy offered the Kingdom of Sicily to ten-year-old Prince Edmund. His father Henry III accepted on his behalf, but the campaign to secure the crown failed; the grant was revoked in 1263.
A title on paper was far from ruling an island.
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