Victoria Kinoiki Kekaulike

Infobox Hawaiian Royalty
name =Kinoiki Kekaulike II
title =

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predecessor =
successor =
spouse =High Chief David Kahalepouli Piokinaikoi
issue =Prince David Kahalepouli Kawananakoa
Prince Edward Abnel Keliokinaiahonui
Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaokinaole
full name =Victoria Kūhiō Kinoiki Kekaulike II
titles ="HRH" Princess
"HE" The Governess of Hawaii Island
royal house =House of Kalakaua
Royal House of Kauai
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father =High Chief Kuhio Kalanianaokinaole of Hilo
mother =Princess Kekaulike Kinoiki of Kauaokinai
date of birth =birth date|1843|5|12|df=y
place of birth =Hilo, Hawaiokinai
date of death =death date and age|1884|1|18|1843|5|12|df=yes
place of death =Honolulu, Oahu
place of burial =Mauna Ala Royal Mausoleum|

Victoria Kūhiō Kinoiki Kekaulike II formally Her Royal Highness The Princess Victoria Kūhiō Kinoiki Kekaulike, was sister to Queen Kapiolani who married to King David Kalākaua and reigned as Queen Consort of the Kingdom of Hawaiokinai. [All about Hawaii.Published 1892.Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Publications Division. Page 139]

Life

She was born in May 12, 1843, the youngest daughter of the Aliokinai of Hilo, High Chief Kuhio Kalanianaole and his wife the Kauaian Princess Kinoiki Kekaulike I. From her father she was cousin of the Kamehameha Dynasty being in the line of Keawe and she was relative of Kalakaua through their common ancestor, the High Chiefess Ululani of Hilo. Her mother was the step-daughter of the Queen Regent Ka'ahumanu and the daughter of Kaumualii, the last king of Kauai before being ceded to the unified Hawaiian Islands governed by Kamehameha the Great. She was the youngest sister of Esther Kapiolani and Virginia Poomaikelani. She was known as Kekaulike which was a name borne by her mother and great-great grandfather, King Kekaulike of Maui.

In February 25, 1861, she married the High Chief David Kahalepouli Piikoi of Kauai and from this marriage they had three sons. [Hawaiian National Bibliography, 1780-1900 By David W. Forbes,] David Kahalepouli Kawananakoa was the first-born; Edward Abnel Keliiahonui, the second born and more frail one; Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole, the youngest and probably most accomplished. Her sons were adopted by her sisters Queen Kapiolani and Princess Poomaikelani after her death. [Beaches of Kaua'i and Ni'ihau By John R. K. Clark] Her sons were granted the title of Princes and style His Highness. Her sister's husband became the king of Hawaii in 1874 And she was granted the title of Princess and style of Her Royal Highness, in 1883 during Kalakaua's coronation. In the coronation, she had the honor of carrying Kalakaua's royal feather cape, passed down from the days of Kamehameha the Great, which she handed to the Chancellor of Hawaiokina, Chief Justice A. F. Judd who placed the cape on the king's shoulders "as of the Ensing of Knowledge and Wisdom". She was made Governess of Hawaii Island by her brother-in-law succeeding her sister's sister-in-law, the Princess Likelike. [Roster, Legislatures of Hawaii, 1841-1918: by Robert Colfax Lydecker. page 147] and she did all in her power to assist her sister, Kapiolani, in her work of charity.

Death

She died at Honolulu, Oahu, on January 18, 1884 or October 17, 1884, a year after Kalakaua's coronation. Her funeral expenses added up to $ 1,931.36. [Na kanawai o ka repubalika o Hawaii, By Hawaii. Page 105] She was interred in the Kalakaua Crypt, at the Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii. [ [http://www.4dw.net/royalark/Hawaii/hawaii4.htm HAWAII4 ] ]

References

External links

* [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~royalty/hawaii/i61.html#I61 Rootsweb]