House of Kawānanakoa

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The House of Kawānanakoa, also known as the Kawānanakoa Dynasty, is a Hawaiian royal house and cadet branch of the House of Kalākaua. It descends from Prince David Kawānanakoa, who was designated an heir to the throne during the reign of Kalākaua and later recognized as a leading claimant to the crown after the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi in 1893. The house has since represented one of the principal surviving dynastic lines associated with the former Hawaiian monarchy. Members of the family are descended from both Native Hawaiian high chiefs and prominent political families of the kingdom, linking the line to the traditional aliʻi nobility as well as the modern constitutional monarchy established in the nineteenth century. Through marriage and ancestry, the house also maintained connections with influential families in Hawaiʻi and abroad. Although the monarchy was abolished following the annexation of Hawaiʻi by the United States, the House of Kawānanakoa continued to hold cultural...

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