She was named after her grandmother ʻElisiva Fusipala Taukiʻonetuku and her elder sister who died of convulsion shortly after her birth.

[3] In 1918, her mother Queen Dowager Takipō died as a result of the 1918 flu pandemic which killed eight percent of the population of Tonga.

Many suitors from the chiefly lines of Tonga were forwarded to enhance her rank including Haʻamea ʻUlukālala, Lala Veikune, Havea Tuʻihaʻateiho, and Semisi Kalaniuvalu.

[6] While in Australia for a health trip, Fusipala died on 21 April 1933 from tubercular peritonitis at the Burwood Private Hospital, in Sydney.

At her deathbed was her brother-in-law Prince Viliami Tungī Mailefihi, who brought her embalmed remains back to Tonga where she was buried in the royal burial grounds at Malaʻekula, Nukuʻalofa.