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Real Photo Card of Funeral for Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani

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Real Photo Card of Funeral for Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani
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Lydia Liliuokalani was the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii. As leader of the “Stand Firm” (Oni pa’a) movement, Liliuokalani fought steadfastly against U.S. annexation of Hawaii. Though Cleveland was sympathetic, his successor William McKinley was not, and his government annexed Hawaii in July 1898. Kaiulani, in poor health, died in 1899 at the age of 24. Liliuokalani withdrew from public life and lived until 1917, when she suffered a stroke and died at the age of 79. Queen Liliuokalani's death was announced to the people by the tolling of bells and the half-masting of flags. Her old subjects among the natives, including chiefs of the old regime, immediately gathered together to mourn.



For internet: She was also known as her royal name of Liliʻuokalani. She was hānai adopted at birth to Abner Pākī and his wife Laura Kōnia. The adoption was a Hawaiian tradition where family members who had no children of their own were given children from other family members to raise as their heirs. Liliuokalani inherited the throne from her brother on January 29, 1891. Shortly after ascending the throne, petitions from her people began to be received through the two major political parties of the time. Believing she had the support of her cabinet and that to ignore such a general request from her people would be against the popular will, she moved to abrogate the existing 1887 Bayonet Constitution, by drafting a new constitution that would restore the veto power to the monarchy and voting rights to economically disenfranchised native Hawaiians and Asians. The effort to draft a new constitution never came to fruition, and it preceded the U.S. invasion, occupation and overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom government. The Queen was deposed on January 17, 1893, and temporarily relinquished her throne to "the superior military forces of the United States". She had hoped the United States, like Great Britain earlier in Hawaiian history, would restore Hawaii's sovereignty to the rightful holder. Liliʻuokalani was arrested on January 16, 1895, several days after the failed 1895 Counter-Revolution in Hawaii led by Robert William Wilcox, when firearms were found at the base of Diamond Head Crater. She denied any knowledge at her trial. She was sentenced to five years of hard labor in prison by a military tribunal and fined $5,000, but the sentence was commuted to imprisonment in an upstairs bedroom of the Palace, where she composed songs including "The Queen's Prayer" (Ke Aloha o Ka Haku – "The Grace of the Lord") and began work on her memoirs.

City: Hawaii
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Date: 1917
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