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Head of the Royal House and Claim to the Throne since 1917

The Succession to the throne is named by the sovereign under a proper royal proclamation or a ratified and approved constitution, naming the heir to the throne or a line of succession according to the law. In 1844, King Kamehameha III ignored wide claims to the dynasty from other chiefly relatives, and thereby, submitted an official list to the Legislature as the Order-in-Council of a selection of the highest ranking native ali'i eligible to rule under the pertaining Articles of the Hawaiian Kingdom's constitutions, being the direct descendants of Keoua nui and his fathers siblings. Article 22 states that upon failing to name an heir to the throne, and if the throne should become vacant, the Legislative Assembly, who shall elect by ballot some native ali`i of the Kingdom as successor to the throne. The Legislative Assembly calls on royal candidates of the highest ranking native ali`i from the list of eligibles to the throne submitted by King Kamehameha III. The list of the highest ranking native ali`i to be rulers was never expanded officially after Kamehameha III by any sovereign, including Kalakaua who was elected from the list in this manner and reigned for 17 years with legal heirs to the throne naming Lili`uokalani. The deposed Queen Lili`uokalani failed to secure a legal heir to the throne after Princess Ka`iulani and dies in 1917 under an illegal occupation, leaving the throne vacant. In 1917, Queen Lili`uokalani's cousin, the High Chiefess Elizabeth Keka`aniau La`anui is the hereditary head of this royal house and now the only highest ranking ali`i alive on the list of eligibles to the throne provided for the Legislative Assembly for Article 22. Given the fact of the overthrow and that the Legislative Assembly is no more, the head of the royal house and preemptive to the throne, High Chiefess Elizabeth Keka`aniau, by the Grace of God has the natural right under international law

to continue as "de jure" sovereign under the illegally occupied Hawaiian Kingdom in 1917.

Princess Elizabeth Keka`aniau announces her status as head of the royal house, a direct descendant of King Kamehameha's brother and also a cousin of Queen Lili`uokalani.

Elizabeth claims the next head of this royal house by primogeniture will be her niece, Princess Theresa Owana Ka`ohelelani and then to her primogeniture descendants,

which has been handed down from generation to generation to her great grand daughter, Princess Owana Ka`ohelelani Salazar.

The official list for the Legislature of native ali`i of the highest rank who are eligible to the throne under Article 22.

Princess Elizabeth Keka`aniau's rights to the throne of the Hawaiian Kingdom (1874, page 4)

1920 Publication of the "Keoua Father of Kings" by High Chiefess Elizabeth Keka`aniau La`anui - Head of the Royal House

1985 Publication of Hawaiian Genealogies pertaining to the relation of Princess Elizabeth Keka`aniau to the Kamehamehas and Queen Lili`uokalani

History of the preservation of the royal house since the 1893 overthrow

February 24, 1893 letter to the Secretary of State for Princess Elizabeth Keka`aniau's claim to protect the crownlands from annexation

March 2, 1893 Daily Bulletin, protests of Princess Elizabeth Keka`aniau, Queen Lili`uokalani & Princess Ka`iulani

1897 Princess Elizabeth Keka`aniau donates to the Bishop Museum, the bust of King Kamehameha II given by the British King George IV in 1824

1898 Queen Lili`uokalani acknowledges Keouanui as the founder of the Kamehameha Dynasty and her relation to him (chapter 1)

1898 Queen Lili`uokalani acknowledges Princess Elizabeth Keka`aniau's eligibility to the throne and royal alumni (chapter 1)

1901 Fons honorum of Princess Theresa Owana with royal titles presented among the U.S. Senate, other states and countries