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"...An overlooked heroine of Scottish heritage: Victoria Ka'iulani Cleghorn, Crown Princess of the Kingdom of Hawai'i, daughter of Princess Miriam Likelike (sister of Queen Lili'iuokalani) and Edinburgh Scot Archibald Cleghorn. Learn the intriguing transoceanic tale of the exquisite and gifted "Hope of Hawai'i". Educated in Britain, friend of Robert Louis Stevenson, Ka'iulani would lose her Royal birthright when American interests overthrew the Hawaiian Monarchy in 1893; after four years semi-stranded in Europe (with one trip to America to plead her Nation's cause), the Princess returned to her homeland, to comfort her people and show solidarity with her Aunt the deposed Queen. Despite her beauty, talent and courage, sorrow and ill health laid Ka'iulani to untimely rest at age 23 in early1899, shortly after her country's annexation to the United States."
Princess Kaiulani was the daughter of Archibald Scott Cleghorn, a Scotsman.
Her Parents...