House of Kawānanakoa

A collateral branch of the reigning House of Kalākaua (from Kauaʻi island) and descendants of chiefs of areas such as Waimea on Hawaiʻi island, the dynastic line was established by Prince David Kawānanakoa who was declared an heir to King David Kalākaua.

Kawānanakoa was engaged to Princess Victoria Kaʻiulani on February 3, 1898,[1] who would have become a monarch in her own right upon the death of Queen Liliʻuokalani had she not predeceased her.

His maternal grandmother High Chiefess Kekaulike Kinoiki was the daughter of the last king of Kauaʻi and Niʻihau Kaumualiʻi.

[4] Members of the family are sometimes called prince and princess, as a matter of tradition and respect of their status as aliʻi or chiefs of native Hawaiians, being lines of ancient ancestry.

House matriarch, Abigail Kawānanakoa, became a national party leader in the early years of the twentieth century.