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Liliʻuokalani was born Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Kamakaʻeha [1] [note 1] on September 2, 1838, to Analea Keohokālole and Caesar Kapaʻakea.She was born in the large grass hut of her maternal grandfather, ʻAikanaka, at the base of Punchbowl Crater in Honolulu on the island of Oʻahu.
Liliuokalani lying in state at Kawaiahaʻo Church, no casket, covered only with an ivory-colored shroud. Liliʻuokalani, the last monarch of Hawaii, died November 11, 1917. The royal standard (flag) was raised over her home at Washington Place to signal to the public that she was deceased.
She did not wish to discuss affairs of state during the period of mourning, but reluctantly acquiesced, and was given the oath of office by Hawaii Supreme Court Chief Justice Albert Francis Judd. Her husband John Owen Dominis was given the title of Prince Consort.
In it, Liliʻuokalani gives her account of her upbringing, her accession to the throne, the overthrow of her government by pro-American forces, her appeals to the United States to restore the Hawaiian monarchy, and her arrest and trial following an unsuccessful 1895 rebellion against the Republic of Hawaiʻi.
Though many Americans think of a vacation in a tropical paradise when imagining Hawaii, how the 50th state came to be a part of the U.S. is actually a much darker story, generations in the making.
However, the Committee of Safety did not believe her promise was sincere, and continued with their planning. A group of men mostly drawn from the ranks of the Reform Party of the Hawaiian Kingdom formed the Committee of Safety and asked the United States Minister, John L. Stevens , to land troops from the U.S.S. Boston (anchored in Honolulu ...
Fearing for American safety, the United States called on USS Boston to land a small force of Marines to protect American interests. Although the Americans were sworn to neutrality and never fired a shot, they did intimidate the royalist defenders, and Queen Lili'uokalani, fearing bloodshed, conceded. [3] [5] [6]
After her pardon in 1896, she spent an extended period with family in Boston, while traveling to Washington, DC to petition against the American annexation of Hawaiʻi. Her translation of the Kumulipo was published by Lee & Shepard in 1897. [4] The following is a list of scholarly and historical resources related to Hawaiʻi's last monarch.