Prince Kuhio: Royal Prince Of The Hawaiian Kingdom

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Royal Prince of the Hawaiian Kingdom
Prince Kuhio was born in Koloa, Kaua’i on March 26, 1871 between David Kahalepouli Pi’ikoi and Princess Victoria Kuhio Kinoike Kekaulike. His full name is Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana’ole Pi’ikoi. His families were a Hawaii’s ancient royal families. Kuhio was born in wealth family and rank on the Kaua’i island in the 1871. He is the youngest son of his family. His parents, David and Victoria, died when he was still a small child. After their death, he and his brother David Kawananakoa and Edward Abner Keli’lahonui Pi’ikoi went to live with their aunt, Kapi’olani and her husband Kalakaua. Their relationship with adoptive parents were really strong. Kalakaua named Kuhio and his brothers princes when Kalakaua became a King. And he placing them in the list of line of succession to the throne. The young princes think seriously about royal rules and study …show more content…

His parents was High Chief Jonah Pi’ikoi and Kehakili, daughter of High Chiefs. Because of his mother he was the nephew of Kapaakea and he was a cousin of Kalakaua, Lili’uokalani, Likelike and Leleiohoku II. In 1861 February 25, he married with Princess Victoria Kinoiki Kekaulike. She is the Queen Kapi’olani’s sister and Kapi'olani is the wife of Kalakaua who is the cousin of David. Pi’ikoi died in 1880.
Victoria Kuhio Kinoike Kekaulike:
Mother of Prince Kuhio and his brothers was a Kingdom of Hawaii’s princess. She was born in 1843 May 12. Her father Kuhio Kalaniana’ole was a chief of Hilo and her mother was a princess of Kaua’i island who name is Kinoiki Kekaulike. Also she was a cousin of the Kamehameha Dynasty because of her father Kuhio. Her sister Kapi'olani’s husband became the king in 1874, because of that she was granted as a Princess and Royal Highness at King’s coronation in 1883. She died on January 8, 1884 in Honolulu by heart disease.
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