Regina Kawānanakoa
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Princess Regina Abigail Mary Wahiʻikaʻahuʻula Kawānanakoa, Princess of the House of Kawānanakoa of Hawaii was born on July 16, 1947. She was the eldest child and only daughter of Prince Edward Abner Kealiʻiahonui Kawānanakoa by his first wife Lila de Clark Whitaker.
She has four brothers, two full-blood and two half-blood. Her brothers, that share the same mother as Princess Regina, were Prince Edward J. Abner Keliiahonui Kawananakoa and Prince David Claren La'amea Kaumualii Kawananakoa. Prince Edward, severely disabled, was excluded from the succession by his father. Prince David renounce his rights in favour of his younger brother. Her half-brothers are Prince Quentin Kuhio Kawānanakoa, the current pretender; and Prince Andrew Piikoi Kawānanakoa, an estate agent.
Due to male primogeniture, she is the 9th in the Kawānanakoa line of the Hawaiian throne after five child of her half-brother Andrew. In the Line of Liliuokalani Kawānanakoa, headed by her first cousin once remove, Princess Abigail Kekaulike Kawananakoa, she is 11th in line and also after her nieces and nephews.
Her names Abigail and Wahiʻikaʻahuʻula are old names of the family. After her grandmother, great grandmother, and great-great grandmother; Princess Abigail Kapiolani, Princess Abigail Wahiikaahuula and High Chiefess Abigail Kuaihelani Maipinepine Kalaikini Campbell Parker.
Princess Regina married twice. In November 1980, at Honolulu, Oahu, Regina married childhood friend to High Chief Henry James Bartels, a relative of Harry Montague Nuuanu Gooding Field, the late husband of Princess Abigail Kapiolani Kawananakoa. The nuptial was featured in a November 1980 Honolulu Magazine story because of both of their ties to royal Hawaiian lineage.[1] Her husband was Curator of the Iolani Palace (1975-1997) and Director of Washington Place Museum (1998-2003). Bartels and Regina divorced prior to 1990 but remain close friends until Bartels' death in April 20, 2003. Her husband had oversaw completion of the restoration of Iolani Palace. Regina was at his bedside in Hoag Memorial Presbyterian Hospital, Newport Beach, California, when he died, she was noted for saying "I was playing the queen's (Liliuokalani's) music for him when he died, and 'Aloha 'Oe' came on." [2] She remarried Samuel Sanchez.[3] She is beyond childbearing years, and her place in the line of succession would pass in to her other relatives.
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Regina Kawānanakoa
Born: 30 July 1947 |
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| Preceded by Princess ? Kawānanakoa |
1st Kawānanakoa line of succession to the Hawaiian throne 9nd position |
Succeeded by Marchesa Kapiolani Kawānanakoa |
| Preceded by Princess ? Kawānanakoa |
2nd Kawānanakoa line of succession to the Hawaiian throne 11th position |
Succeeded by Marchesa Kapiolani Kawānanakoa |
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