Princess Ka‘iulani of Hawai‘i: Part 1
Princess Ka‘iulani of Hawai‘i's story is one of hope and betrayal, of deception and revolution, of surfing and painting and dancing, and of incredible tenacity and bravery.
In this first installment, we meet her parents, Archibald Scott Cleghorn and Princess Likelike of Hawai‘i. We see little Ka‘iulani grow up with full confidence in the role she was born to play - a future sovereign of her country. And we see her face the first devastating tragedy of her young life.
But to set up what's about to happen to her, we have to take a step back in time and find out why Hawai‘i's political situation was so tense during the reign of her uncle, King Kalākaua.
Because once you understand how we got here, Ka‘iulani's story is even more poignant. Yes, this is the story of a little girl with a pony who asked her uncle for a diamond ring. But it's also the story of a country struggling to keep its culture and its independence. Of a country fighting enemies seen and unseen - including death, disease, and infertility.
The stakes? Nothing less than the land and the soul of a nation.
#princesskaiulaniofhawaii #hawaiianroyalty #womeninhistory
Chapters
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00:00 Introduction
01:14 Meet the Parents
07:45 Meet Ka‘iulani
10:05 Home Sweet Home
14:47 Naturally Naughty
17:51 A Sacrifice Demanded
23:45 Breaking Kapu
30:31 Game of Thrones
39:52 Credits
Continue the Story
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🎞️ Part 2 is now available here: • Part 2: Princess Ka‘iu...
Sources
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There are a lot! You can find them all here: girlinthetiara.com/princess-k...
Pronunciations
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I studied for hours before recording and did my best to pronounce Hawaiian names and places. I even made an audio supercut cheat-sheet of pronunciations to study clipped from interviews, broadcasts, podcasts, and more. I'm afraid I'll never get "Kalākaua" right, despite hours and hours of attempting it and re-recording. Out of respect for the Hawaiian language and what its native speakers have been through, I'm determined to keep trying. I apologize for anything I got terribly wrong.
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ABOUT THE GIRL IN THE TIARA
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👑 I tell stories about tiaras and the fascinating royal women who wore them. Join me as I follow these tiaras across generations and countries, through wars and revolutions and-sometimes-into darkness and disappearance and destruction.
This isn't the kind of history your professor lectured about. Instead, think of this as conversational history, like a mash-up of Drunk History and The Crown. Yes, there's a little swearing. There's also humor and heart and a boatload of compassion for these amazing royal women.
ABOUT ME
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👑 I never intended to start a channel or a website about tiaras and royal history. But a midlife crisis forced me to re-examine my life. I gave up fiction writing after self-publishing 9 of the 10 books I'd written and earning next to nothing.
Instead of the misery of marketing books, I turned to my first love...royal history. So here I am, a 40-something burnout, trying to start over by recapturing her love of history, royal women, and their jewels.
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To the author and commentator of this wonderful and historical documentary, MAHALO! Thank you for the in-depth research of our beloved Princess Ka'Iulani story and history of our Monarch and Kingdom. Your passionate and heartfelt documentary has given me a sense of pride for our Queen and Princess. Thank you for all you do to keep the memories of our Kingdon's history alive. I wish you all the best. Mahalo Nui Loa. Ernest Ho'opi'i
The women of Hawaiian Royalty seem strong and wise... 🏝
@ashleelarsen5002
Жыл бұрын
Yes! I wanna be Queen too! This was very enjoyable, I would have a kid if she was that spunky. Mahalo 🤙
As a Kanaka Maoli, both of my parents are born of Hawaiian origin, both of them have parents who come from Maui and Kona, Big Island. My great grandparents are from Wales of England and Ireland. My great grandparents were born and raised in the neighboring Big Island and Maui. You did a wonderful service to our Kanaka Maoli’ community and families. My youngest sister’s middle name is Ka’iulani. She’s named after the Princess Ka’iulani. As a Polynesian man from Hawai’i who married another Polynesian from American Samoa we share our cultures, traditions and customs. I commend your dedication to teaching other non-Hawaiians about our history from its inception. Not many people can understand and do what you did. You’ve recognized that you’re a Haole girl and that’s understandable. But so far you’re right on the facts about our Hawaiian Kingdom. Mahalo nui loa Malama Pono. Kawai Kau’pe, Jr.
Mahalo for telling the history of America and Hawaiʻi nei. The history that most Americans don’t take the time to know and only come to our home to use as their playground then leave. Need more haole like you that would learn the history and culture of a place and it’s people before going there. Mahalo nui loa no ka wikio. Ā hui hou! Mālama pono
You enunciation of the Hawaiian names is awesome! Mahalo!
@TheGirlintheTiara
2 жыл бұрын
Oh, thank you! I stressed big time over the pronunciations. I'm glad they're all right!
I genuinely cried out with excitement to see you post a video about Princess Ka’iulani! 🥺😍 Although I discovered her story only recently, she is one of my absolute favorite historical figures.
@afropuertorican8022
Жыл бұрын
All lies
@kamakap3947
11 ай бұрын
you should cry. Our people in Hawaii are being murdered and genocided.
MAY THE HEAVEN KEEP YOU KINDLY IN PEACE, KA' IULANI ! ❤
Excellent narration. The quality of voice, poise, pace, and professionalism are all balanced with approachability. As a classroom teacher, I so wish I could emulate your presentation style, but I’m just not made the same way you are.
Excellent, detailed, and well researched! I have not seen anything else on you tube like your detailed true stories!. Its as if we are back in time for 30 minutes! Can't wait for part 2! 🤗💕
@TheGirlintheTiara
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! Your comment just made my day. Maybe my whole week! I'm so glad you feel transported in time - that's exactly what I'm going for. 💜
Wonderful video. You constantly bring historical figures to life in both an educational and entertaining manner. Thank you!
@TheGirlintheTiara
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you're enjoying these videos. 💜
ALOHA HAWAII , KEEP YOU IN MY HEART FOREVER ! ❤
Absolutely fascinating. I look forward to Part 2 despite fears that it will be tale of tragedy for the Royal family and the native Hawaiians. Again I commend you on your narrative style.
Wow! And all this relates to what is happening currently on Maui. Incredible.
Bailey Sarian just posted a Dark History video about Hawai’i. Someone in the comments suggested to come to your channel and watch your videos, and I am so glad I did.
To my eyes , this is your most ambitious work yet, and it's going swimmingly. You leap from peak to peak and conquer them all. Can't wait to hear Part Two. thanks sincerely
@TheGirlintheTiara
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! You're absolutely right - this was the most ambitious project I've ever tackled. The series is complete now (4 videos), so you can watch all the way through and find out how her story ends. It means so much to hear you say you enjoyed it. Thank you a million times. 💜
@slothhhhh
Жыл бұрын
@@TheGirlintheTiara just a reminder of how many people you've made happy over just the past year. These comments say 1yr ago, & I seen a couple other comments that were genuinely kind from last yr also 😍
Great video! I think I have an inkling how the struggle ends! Greedy people are the worst!
@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647
2 жыл бұрын
Yes along with the word entitled with greedy.
I've been following your content for a while now. You surprised me with this one. Thank you so much for sharing. I have a very interesting historical figure from my Island home Samoa. Emma Coe was the daughter of a Samoan Princess, and, Jona Coe of the USA. She was known as Queen Emma. She broke all of the gender rules, became one of the wealthiest self made women of her era(Victorian I think).
She was so beautiful!
I've missed your videos! I'm always impressed by how much research you do, and all the work you put in your videos and posts. This was really good! I can't wait for the second part
Great video as always! Very well researched & explained. Can’t wait for part 2!!
@TheGirlintheTiara
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed meeting Ka‘iulani. 💜
Fantastic! As a lover of havai, was a pleasure to watch. Mahalo for sharing . Aloha!
Wow, only a few minutes in and I’m impressed. The fact you learned how to say our names of places and people to put this together is already putting a smile on my face! Great video!
I enjoy reading the Hawaiian history. thank you.
Excellent! Around the World.
Thank you so much for this innovative idea and in keeping the memory of so many women.
Fantastic presentation. The story of Hawaii is one that breaks my heart. It's also a similar story where I live in Australia except not the US but Britain. Looking forward to Part 3.
@TheGirlintheTiara
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much! It was pretty depressing to research the politics of the time and the revolution (episode 3). It broke my heart, too. There's an image in the last video in the series (episode 4) where the Hawaiian flag was lowered for the last time. It made me cry...it was just so *wrong*. I don't know much about Australian history, but it's awful to think a similar story happened there, too.
Welcome back! Did you have to comeback in the middle of my finals week tho :) love your videos💕
i can't wait for part 2
Another great video from you.I@d never heard this Hawai'ian history before. Many thanks, Looking forward to seeing where it goes.
Hi my name is Florence from San Antonio Texas, this is my 1st time to watch the storys of Princess Ka'lulani of Hawai'i. I loved the story about her, and i also cried . Listening to what happened to her and her family ,and people of her Hawai'i. How her throne and land were taken away from them. And yes I do believe her truths. Thank you for your wonderful time to share her story with us. Many blessings to you and to Beautiful Hawaii and there people ,my condolences to Maui Lahaina Hawai'is people ,Hugs and love to Hawai'i Ms Flo.💖💖💖💖💖🙋🏻♀️🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🤗😯😔😭😢☹🙋🏻♀️😊
I miss your videos so much theyre so nice to watch 😭😭
Love it!
@TheGirlintheTiara
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much! 💜
Thank you so much.
Pronunciation of Hawaiian names are 💯
@river4462
8 күн бұрын
Naah not entirely
Your channel is amazing. I love the fact you cover the good and the bad. I haven’t looked but would love to see you do a series on the Russian royal family.
@TheGirlintheTiara
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! 💜 I actually have a lot of lesser-known Romanov women on my list to cover.
❤wonderful and fascinating❣️🤙🏻🌴
So thankful to see you post again 💗👑 Your videos make my day!
@TheGirlintheTiara
2 жыл бұрын
Aww, thanks so much! Your comment just made *my* day, so we're even. 💜
Love yah
I check your channel every day! Love your content 💖
THis was wonderful. very well done
Amazing video!
@TheGirlintheTiara
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much! 💜
I'm impressed. You certainly did your research. Much better than the movie about Ka'iulani made a few years back. Also, Julia Flynn Siler's book LostKingdom is very well researched & reads like a novel. Thank you
Aloha ❤
If you can’t tell from the last name here, she is a cousin. And I’m super proud! Though obviously I am related on her father side. It’s one of the dreams of my life to visit Hawaii.
Very interesting ! I also read Lost Kingdom by Julia Siler. Very well done.
Thank you so much! I was so hoping you would do one on my favorite princess! I love your style of presentation and when I started watching your videos I knew you would do this so well. I was not disappointed. I'm getting so much detail on her life and the situation in Hawaii at that time that I never knew! Thank you! I'm eagerly looking forward to the 2nd half.
Thurston changed the trajectory of Princess Kaiulanis life😢😢
I never knew Archie had kids from another marriage. That was sweet his wife was nice to him.
💜🌺💜🌺💜🌺💜🌺💜
Can you please tell me the song at the end of this video.
I love these stories. I might be alone with this but I had a few minutes where the music was so loud it drowned out your voice. But it might be a problem my end. Most of the time it was fine and it didn't dim my enjoyment whatsoeve
Our ancestors still are 🌺
We have some Kalanis around here.
Wow. The Last Great Reset. Crazy.
Thank you so much for making a video about my family. We’re distant cousins on both my Haole mom’s side and my dads side. He’s full blooded Hawaiian royalty and my mom is Scottish royalty. My mom’s family has literally been murdering my dads family for generations. Our people are dying, tortured and genocided and most Americans are oblivious or don’t care, especially the ones living in Hawaii.
This is an interesting version ... isn't it true that Queen Ka'ahumanu was an avid adherent to the new religion of Chritianity and that was why she was so instumental in abolishing the Kapu system ?
Her death is such a mystery, and hard to believe! Since I went through to Hawaii at 18 as a Canadian I believed she was killed because she was definitely in the way of the Americans plans.🇨🇦
Are you still active?
because he was already married
They wore these European clothes which were extremely hot in a place where the temperature seldom goes below 75 degrees Fahrenheit
@TheGirlintheTiara
2 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing! A corset, petticoats, satins and velvet...man, I sweat when I'm just wearing a t-shirt and jeans. I don't know how they did it.
There will be a day, when WE bring you to the Islands and YOU will be OUR honored guest
There are so many stories about the royal family of Hawaii what about the subjects of Hawaii? The people who gave all their money to the monarchs so they could live that lifestyle. What was their life like? Did they get to move up in society or pretty much they were born a peasant they died a peasant?
Let's tell how people was trying to beat her to death and how she try to hide to save herself and her children.
Are they also going tell the part where they found her in hotel beat. How she died a horrible death.
the natives.... unforgiveable
That was beautifuly done. And the History is educational. I wish I could have been back in those times to see events that mattered like this one. Ive never been to the islands, i could never aford it. But as far as I know, they never taught us any of this information, or our own History. The whole World has been lied to about true History, by the Victors, in all their Greedy Wars, and Trickery.
Spreckles?!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Sorry. I'm dun.
Because of the three sister marrying Europeans, Hawaii was taken over.
@starlite04
4 күн бұрын
That's not what happened. Americans were already causing trouble before any of that happened.
Pateron yes I would give you a dollar gadely
it wasn't a coincidence. the arrival of another religion was in connivance, i suspect
Evan Hawaii
Sybil Bingham was not a looker.
Local money love you waste all over Hawaii heaven love you
That’s not what the mahele was but the outcome still happened as explained. Just for different reasons. The Mahele was for natives not foreigners. And all land was still vested in perpetuity to the King for the natives. Foreigners could only lease land. Mahele was an effort of the King to preserve land for natives, especially given that the rules of international relations at the time gave respect for private land owners. So if a country was to take over the government, the natives rights to their land was still intact. Mahele was NOT successful as much as it should have because various reasons. Understanding from the natives is a reason, but so was the need to travel from far distances in order to register for land. Hawaiians always owned land, otherwise why would anyone claim it was stolen. The concepts and responsibilities of ownership was different in the mind of Natives vs Foreigners.
I cannot listen and follow all these information overladen videos. Needs breaking up into chapters or something. Especially the backstory history mid video.
@TheGirlintheTiara
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the feedback - I appreciate it!
yeah.. wtf... dressed up n spoilt... didnt even know who she was
The first people to reach what is now Hawaii were Blacks from Polynesia - a name which means “many islands” - in the central Pacific. They sailed to Hawaii in giant canoes about 2,000 years ago.
@kfin888
Жыл бұрын
*POLYNESIANS* from Polynesian.
@trextv2154
10 ай бұрын
No it was Polynesians and Asians. Please let the Hawaiian people have their identity back. It’s bad enough The politicians and sugar cane men took everything from them.
@bn3807
5 ай бұрын
@@trextv2154 blacks from Polynesia way back in the days is the Hawaiians true identity not Asians Hawaiians look nothing like Asians at all and never have if anything they have a closer resemblance to the black Polynesians
I think America should give up Hawaii and let it be its own country again.
Oh the losers on earth who love playing the victim!
I wish there was a different narrator to this Hawaiian history. She reads the script too fast and not enough of clearer enunciations.
@river4462
8 күн бұрын
Mispronouncing plenty
You’re just another Ha’ole who cannot pronounce Ka’iulani and Kalāka’ua names correctly
@cerberus2654
6 ай бұрын
'Ōlelo Hawai'i 'oe?
Lier😂😂😂 she was not with no white man and she is a black Polynesian from a tribe in Africa she was the last black queen of Hawaii.
The video should have began with an actual photo of the Queen not a European depiction or Caucasian version of her likeness that does not accurately convey her Black beauty.
@kfin888
Жыл бұрын
That IS an actual photo, albiet colorized. also Hawaiian national / ethnicity is not black.
@MsG55580
Жыл бұрын
There's absolutely not Bantus, Cushitic, and Nilotic phenotypes of the ancient Polynesians. The ancient Polynesians are as different from the Micronesians, and Melanesians of the South Pacific! I'm sick and tired of American Black (Bantuid) males trying to make revisionist historical analysis without any proof to the contrary. Stop the lies.
Please....King Kamehameha brutally conquered the Hawaiian Islands stealing the land from the chiefs of each island....everybody acts like that's ok...if Hawaii had not become an American state I guarantee another nation would have conquered Hawaii either.peacefully or by force....just like native american tribes were conquering eachother for hundreds.of years before being conquered by USA....before American missionaries came to Hawaii, native Hawaiians did not have a written language it was American missionaries that helped create a written Hawaiian language...without literacy you would only have oral traditions and you would be unable to have a clear written record of your history, there would be no higher education...no engineering, No written history....we can't live in the past..its not real. As much as any of us might wish to return to the past it is a fantasy in the mind....it is a delusion not reality...time is always moving forward...the past is gone it will never return...the present is all you have.......if you were to protest King Kamehameha you would have been slaughtered. It is because you have a right to freedom of speech.protected by the USA 🇺🇸 constitution that you are able to legally protest against the USA 🇺🇸 Government...while living in the 🇺🇸....like it or not Hawaii is 🇺🇸..FACTS.... Lets be honest....Hawaii was in the stone age before the westerners 🇺🇸 came and taught you how to read and write, do mathematics engineering, business, science....without western 🇺🇸 civilization you never would have received education, literacy technology...I'm not trying to be mean I'm just speaking the truth.....please stop glorifying the Kapuu system where ALL the land was owned by the King and all of the nstive Hawaiian people were his indentured servants...SLAVES...the western system 🇺🇸 has endured this long because it has been more functional than primitive, stoneage society....high tech is superior to stoneage tech....the irony is all of the technology you use in everyday life came from other countries...change is inevitable haoles are here to stay 🇺🇸 🇺🇲 Aloha 😎
@GulfIslandRock
2 жыл бұрын
USA f*cked over the Hawaiian people big time and stole their land in 1898 . Quite sad don’t you think? Ask a Hawaiian how they feel about being part of the US . I have many times
@kfin888
Жыл бұрын
🤡
@MsG55580
Жыл бұрын
Thank you ❤
@trextv2154
10 ай бұрын
Your the problem! The Queen had a great education and if you took the time to look into it you would find that the sugar cane plantation owners took everything even their very language was not to be spoken. Watch the right documentaries. I guess it’s ok with you to not move our American dead but move the Hawaiian descendants out of their caves for progress! You are so far from where we are meant to be in the name of progress! 😢
You know why the great British aka English, Irish, Scottish, welsh came and Forcibly took the land. Because of Captain James Cook. He was the first white to be murdered by King Kamehameha in the late 1700s to early 1800s. And so they moved on the land and took it illegally. The crown of england stole everything and put it on their crowns. Jewels, gold, diamonds, artifacts and so much more. I would like to know what they did with the endeavour ship. Captain Cook's Ship.
You know why the great British aka English, Irish, Scottish, welsh came and Forcibly took the land. Because of Captain James Cook. He was the first white to be murdered by King Kamehameha in the late 1700s to early 1800s. And so they moved on the land and took it illegally. The crown of england stole everything and put it on their crowns. Jewels, gold, diamonds, artifacts and so much more. I would like to know what they did with the endeavour ship. Captain Cook's Ship.