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The House of Kawānanakoa, or the Kawānanakoa Dynasty, are pretenders to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii. ==Origins== A collateral branch of the reigning House of Kalākaua (from Kauai island) and descendants of chiefs of areas such as Waimea on Hawaii island, the dynastic line was established by Prince David Kawānanakoa who was declared to be in the line of royal succession through a proclamation of King David Kalākaua. He was the son of High Chief David Kahalepouli Piikoi and High Chiefess Victoria Kinoiki Kekaulike. Kawānanakoa was engaged to Princess Victoria Kaiulani on February 3, 1898, who would have become a monarch in her own right upon the death of Queen Liliuokalani had she not predeceased her. David Kawānanakoa's paternal ancestry comes from a cadet branch of the Kauai royal family. His paternal grandmother High Chiefess Kekahili was a half-sister of High Chief Caesar Kapaakea, the father of Kalākaua, both being children of the Chiefess Kamokuiki. This made her an aunt of King Kalākaua and Queen Liliuokalani, which makes the Kawānanakoas the closest surviving collateral relatives of the formerly reigning Kalākaua house. The said grandmother descended, besides from the ancient line of chiefs of Kauai, also from the chief of Kaʻū, a great-uncle of King Kamehameha I. However, the more higher ranking ancestry of David Kawānanakoa actually is that through his mother. His maternal grandmother High Chiefess Kekaulike Kinoiki was the daughter of the last king of Kauai and Niihau Kaumualii. She was the granddaughter of Kaneoneo, who attempted to take Oahu back from Kahekili II in rebellion. She descended from the lines of high chiefs of Niihau, Koloa, Oahu, Kauai and Maui. High Chief Kūhiō Kalanianaole the maternal grandfather Kanekoa, on his part, was a descendant of several districts of the island of Hawaii (such as Waimea, Kona and Hilo) and descended directly from the chief of Waimea. Kanekoa was the half-uncle of King Kamehameha I who himself was originally a chief of Kona. The House of Kawānanakoa survives today and is believed to be heirs to the throne by a number of genealogists. Members of the family are sometimes called prince and princess, as a matter of tradition and respect of their status as ''alii'' or chiefs of native Hawaiians, being lines of ancient ancestry. The House of Kawānanakoa in contemporary Hawaiian politics is closely aligned with the Hawaii Republican Party, a political party it helped organize since the creation of the Territory of Hawaii. Its matriarch, Abigail Kawānanakoa, became a national party leader in the early years of the twentieth century. While many historians, members of the government of Hawaii (as a matter of opinion and not policy), and some Hawaii residents consider the House of Kawānanakoa the rightful heirs to the throne, smaller factions of native Hawaiians with objections to the family's ties to the Hawaii Republican Party have chosen instead to support various other branches of alii lines, such as descendants of collateral branches of the extended House of Kamehameha (to which both the Kalākaua and Kawānanakoa dynasties are distantly related, too) as having rights to the throne. An even smaller group would like to maintain the abolition of the monarchy and organize a democratic republic should native Hawaiians achieve independence. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「House of Kawānanakoa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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