20 Facts About Princess Ka'iulani

1.

Princess Ka'iulani was the niece of King Kalakaua and Queen Lili?uokalani.

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2.

Princess Ka'iulani had not yet reached her eighteenth birthday when the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom altered her life.

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3.

Princess Ka'iulani had three older half-sisters: Rose Kaipuala, Helen Mani?iailehua, and Annie Pauahi, from her father's previous union with a Hawaiian woman.

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4.

Princess Ka'iulani would become fluent in the Hawaiian, English, French and German languages.

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5.

Princess Ka'iulani would become the heir apparent after the death of her uncle Kalakaua and the accession of Lili?uokalani.

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6.

Princess Ka'iulani blamed Lili?uokalani's political inaction for the overthrow and believed that the monarchy would have been preserved had she abdicated in favor of Ka?iulani.

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7.

Princess Ka'iulani met privately with Thurston and requested that he respect Ka'iulani's claim to the throne, which Thurston tersely refused to consider.

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8.

Princess Ka'iulani attended various social events, many in her honor, and toured the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Wellesley College.

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9.

Princess Ka'iulani stayed at Arlington Hotel where she awaited the chance to meet with the President.

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10.

Princess Ka'iulani was beginning to enjoy life abroad, so much so that she resisted returning to the Davies' home to become a political asset.

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11.

Princess Ka'iulani complained of headaches, weight loss, eye problems and fainting spells.

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12.

Princess Ka'iulani cautioned that any funding from the Provisional Government obligated her to support their cause.

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13.

Princess Ka'iulani tried to get Ka?iulani to re-focus on the goal ahead regarding Hawaii, but she wanted to be in charge of her own destiny.

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14.

Princess Ka'iulani was acquainted with Joseph Dwight Strong, a landscape painter in the court of Kalakaua, and Isobel Osbourne Strong, a lady-in-waiting to Likelike.

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15.

Princess Ka'iulani further hinted that the union, approved by her father and Theo H Davies, was being kept secret for political reasons.

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16.

Princess Ka'iulani last saw the document with her notary Carlos A Long, with her instructions to have changes made in the wording.

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17.

Princess Ka'iulani was connected in the press to two other suitors in 1898: Captain Putnam Bradlee Strong, an American officer en route to fight in the Spanish–American War in Manilla and son of New York City Mayor William Lafayette Strong, and Andrew Adams, a New England-born journalist for The Pacific Commercial Advertiser whom her father favored.

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18.

Princess Ka'iulani lay in state at Kawaiaha?o Church until her final service.

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19.

Princess Ka'iulani was interred in the main chapel of the mausoleum, joining her mother Likelike and the other deceased members of the royal houses of Kalakaua and Kamehameha.

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20.

Princess Ka'iulani Ka?iulani was played by 12-year-old Kaimana Pa?aluhi of Oahu and by Q'Orianka Kilcher.

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