Edward D. Kawānanakoa

Edward David Kalākaua Kawānanakoa (March 10, 1904 – May 20, 1953) was the only son of Prince David Kawānanakoa of the House of Kawānanakoa born during his marriage with Princess Abigail Campbell Kawānanakoa, daughter of Hawaiian industrialist James Campbell. He was head of the Royal House of Kawānanakoa 1917 - 1954. He was also known as Prince Koke.

He was born born March 10, 1904, at Honolulu, Oahu. His siblings were Princess Abigail Kapiolani Kawānanakoa and Princess Lydia Liliʻuokalani Kawānanakoa. He was educated abroad like due to his father's status as a former prince and politician and like his father also attend a military academy in California. He attended Oʻahu College, Hawaiʻi; Fay School, in Southborough, Massachusetts; Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut, and Belmont Military Academy, Belmont, California.

His father was declared Heir Apparent to Queen Liliʻuokalani on March 6, 1899 upon Princess Kaʻiulani's death. His father predeceased the ex-Queen and he succeed his father as Heir Apparent June 2, 1908. He succeeded Queen Liliʻuokalani as head of the Royal House of Hawaii on November 11, 1917. Kawānanakoa also served in World War II with the US Coast Guard.^[1]

Kawānanakoa married three times: first to Eileen Hutchins, daughter of Rear-Admiral Charles Thomas Hutchins, USN, sometime Commander of the US Pacific Fleet, in c. 1929 at Honolulu, Oahu. He divorced Eileen in 1931 and remarried to Gertrude Leilani (17 October 1904 - 26 January 1978), former wife of Lindsay Anton Faye and married thirdly to George R. Humphrey, and elder daughter of Walter Henry Scott, by his wife, Mary Eleanor Kaonohilani, daughter of William Hyde Rice. He divorced her two years later in 1933. He entered a common-law marriage with Arvilla Kinslea. On October 24, 1937, after a wild party, Kinslea was found dead and stabbed in the neck with a broken piece of crockery. Kawānanakoa had received a suspended sentence for killing a woman due to his reckless driving, four year prior. He confessed to the murder and was sentenced to several years in prison.^[2][3] His last marriage on October 27, 1949, was to (Princess) Cecilia Kuliaikanuʻuwaiʻaleʻale, daughter of Robert Kameeiamoku Parker Waipa, by his wife, Madaline Kekuakapuokane, daughter of Abraham Fornander.

He died at Honolulu, Oahu, on May 20, 1953, at the age of 49 and was buried there in the Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii at Mauna ʻAla in Nuʻuanu Valley. He died issueless and the House of Kawānanakoa was split in half, between his two competing sisters Lydia and Abigail. The Royal House today is still split between Abigail's grandson Prince Quentin Kawānanakoa and Lydia's only daughter Princess Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa.^[4]

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