Fons Honorum

Eligibles to the Throne Timeline
Fons Honorum and Preservation of the Royal Family

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Since the illegal overthrow of our Hawaiian Monarchy in 1893, existence and visibility of this royal family remained constant, consistent, and obvious, continued royal prerogatives, using royal titles, recognizing worthy individuals with knighthoods and other decorations and honors. Confirms continuity and that this Royal Family of Hawaiʻi never relinquished their royal status, and has been active members of the international community as the rightful heirs to the former Hawaiian de facto throne for over 100 years, thus clearly continued to preserve sovereignty required and protected under International law.

"Keoua nui is the founder of the Kamehameha Dynasty who founded the Hawaiian Kingdom."

- quote by Her Majesty Queen Liliʻuokalani 1898

By an official proclamation under the Kamehameha Dynasty, by His Majesty King Kamehameha III,

he publishes the following list of members of the royal house who are officially eligible to rule the kingdom.

"These are exclusively persons whose claims to the throne were acknowledged"

- quote by Her Majesty Queen Liliʻuokalani 1898

After the death of the last ruler, Her Majesty Queen Lili'uokalani in 1917, only the High Chiefess Princess Elizabeth Keka'aniau remained alive on the list of eligible rulers to claim the throne. Princess Elizabeth's eligibility to the throne was acknowledged by all the sovereigns of the Hawaiian Kingdom and the Legislature. Confirmed and published by the last sovereign, Queen, Lili'uokalani before her death.

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.

As a safeguard for the throne to prevent anarchy - should the reigning dynastic line of succession come to an end and upon failing to name an heir to the throne or if the throne should become vacant, Article 22 states that the Legislative Assembly, shall then elect by ballot some native ali`i of the Kingdom as successor to the throne. The Legislative Assembly calls upon only the 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 his sister, Princess Lili`uokalani.

The deposed Queen Lili`uokalani failed to secure a legal heir to the throne after Princess Ka`iulani who died in 1899. The queen dies later in 1917 under an illegal occupation, ending the dynastic line of succession and leaving the throne vacant. In 1917, Queen Lili`uokalani's cousin, the High Chiefess Princess Elizabeth Keka`aniau La`anui is now the hereditary head of this royal house and 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 in abeyance, the head of the royal house and preemptive to the throne, High Chiefess Elizabeth Keka`aniau, by the Grace of God has the legal and natural right under international law

to continue as "de jure" soveriegn under the illegally occupied Hawaiian Kingdom in 1917 - to preserve sovereignty, the royal family and the Hawaiian Kingdom.

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

~Quoted statements by H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth Keka'aniauokalani La'anui Pratt in 1920 and published in Keoua, Father of Kings:

“Out of the promising group of youthful scions of Hawaii’s Nobility, the descendants of the royal houses of Keaweikekahiali'iokamoku of Hawai'i, the Pi'ilanis and Kamalalawalus of Maui, the Kakuihewas and Kaleiomanuias of O'ahu and the Manokalanipos of Kaua'i: Moses Kekuaiwa, Alexander Liholiho, Lot Kamehameha, Victoria Kamamalu, Emma Rooke, William Lunalilo, David Kalakaua, Lydia Kamaka'eha, Bernice Pauahi, Elizabeth Keka'aniau La'anui, Jane Loeau Jasper, Abigail Maheha, Peter Young Ka'eo, James Kaliokalani Kapa'akea, William Pitt Kina'u and Mary Pa'a'aina, - there remains but one survivor to cherish the reminiscences of those dear, sweet days of long ago, and that one is this writer of Keoua, Father of Kings.

"Keoua Kalanikupuapa'ikalaninui is progenitor of the Keoua line and likewise of the Kamehameha's. (My brother) Gideon Ka'ilipalaki La'anui by his wife Kamaikaopa left an only child, a daughter, Theresa Owana Ka'ohelelani, who by her husbands, AJ Cartwright Junior, and the Hon. Robert W. Wilcox, has a family of children and grandchildren, forming the junior branch of the
Keoua family now living. They and I are the only sole representatives of the senior line,comprise the only descendants of the grand and famous chieftain, Keoua Nui."

~Quoted statements by H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth Keka'aniauokalani La'anui Pratt in 1920 and published in Keoua, Father of Kings

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 this Royal House of Hawaiʻi

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 Princess Theresa Owana presenting her royal titles among the U.S. Senate, other states and countries