Re: 'Last Hawaiian princess' Abigail Kaw?nanakoa dies with $215m in wealth

[Louis Epstein]

Big Mongo <bigmon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63956634
>
> 'Last Hawaiian princess' Abigail Kaw?nanakoa dies with $215m in wealth
>
> By Kathryn Armstrong
> BBC News
> Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kaw?nanakoa, Hawaii's so-called "last princess",
> has passed away aged 96.
>
> The royal, known to her friends as Kekau, was one of the last living links
> to the royal family and was celebrated for her philanthropic support of
> traditional Hawaiian culture.
>
> The heiress died peacefully at home in Honolulu on Sunday with her wife by

Obviously not inclined to produce further royals,then...

>
> His daughter married Prince David Kaw?nanakoa, who was third in line for
> the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii when the royal family was overthrown by
> American businessmen in 1893.
>
> At the time, the role of US nationals in the coup was controversial, and
> President Grover Cleveland describing their involvement in the overthrow of
> the Hawaiian monarchy an "embarrassment".

[and when the Republicans regained the White House they annexed Hawaii,
and the following Republican president would take over and extinguish
the monarchy of Samoa]

> After the prince's death in 1908, his widow adopted their grandchild
> through the traditional Hawaiian custom of "h?nai", which strengthened
> Abigail's claim to the informal title of princess.
>
> While some genealogists claimed that Princess Kaw?nanakoa had the strongest
> royal ties to Hawaii, a separate offshoot of the former royal family claims
> that Princess Owana Ka'ohelelani is the rightful head of the modern-day
> dynasty.

Descended from Kamehameha I's older brother Kalokuokamaile...her mother
picked her over her four older brothers.

> Mrs Kaw?nanakoa herself admitted in a 2021 interview with Honolulu Magazine
> that had the monarchy survived, her cousin Edward Kaw?nanakoa would have
> been in line to rule ahead of her, based on the rules of succession.

Son of her mother's older sister...Owana's partisans see their branch
as ineligible to succeed,though.

> "Of course I would be the power behind the throne, there's no question
> about that," she joked in the interview.

Edward Kawananakoa's third son Quentin,a Republican politician,claims
to head that branch these days because his two older brothers have
disabilities...but Hawaiian succession is a mess.There were wars
of unification and secession,and rank depended to some extent on
maximizing inbreeding (marrying one's daughter was rare,but one's
sister often preferred) so as to have the highest-ranked ancestors.
Kalukuokamaile & Kamehameha's father Keoua's father Ke'eaumoku had
one grandmother and one great-grandfather (she had Ke'eaumoku's
father by her full brother and mother by her half-brother)...if
certain accounts are to be believed.
Christian missionaries didn't like this when they came to convert
the islands,and while convincing Kamehameha III(?) to break up with
his pregnant wife/sister they got themselves invited to the childbirth
and made sure the baby died by giving it a cold bath...it would have
been heir.
Popular and legislative election also each happened.

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