ʻAnaseini Takipō

ʻAnaseini Takipō Afuhaʻamango (1 March 1893 – 26 November 1918) was Queen of Tonga from 1909 to 1918 as the second wife of George Tupou II.

Her father was Tēvita Ula Afuhaʻamango, Noble of Vavaʻu, and her mother was Siosiana Tongovua Tae Manusā.

Both women died in 1901 and 1902 respectively and the grief-strickened king remained unmarried with only one legitimate daughter Princess Sālote Mafile‘o Pilolevu, who was an unpopular heir with the former supporters of the deceased ʻOfa.

[2][3] In order to appease his subjects and the Council of Chiefs, King Tupou II married ʻAnaseini Takipō, the sister of the rejected ʻOfa, on 11 November 1909.

[6][7] Shortly after, Queen Dowager Takipō died at Finefekai, Nukuʻalofa, on 26 November 1918, as a result of the infamous 1918 flu pandemic which killed eight percent of the population of Tonga.