Abigail Helen Kapiʻolani Kawānanakoa (March 14, 1903 – April 8, 1961) was a member of the

House of Kawānanakoa The House of Kawānanakoa, or the Kawānanakoa Dynasty, are descendants to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. Origins A collateral branch of the reigning House of Kalākaua (from Kauaʻi island) and descendants of chiefs of areas such as ...

and the eldest daughter of Prince

David Kawānanakoa David Laʻamea Kahalepouli Kinoiki Kawānanakoa (February 19, 1868 – June 2, 1908) was a prince of the Hawaiian Kingdom and founder of the House of Kawānanakoa. He was in the line of succession to the Hawaiian throne. After Hawaii's annexatio ...

and Princess Abigail Campbell Kawānanakoa.

Life

She was born in

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, on March 14, 1903, and was adopted by her maternal grandmother, Abigail Kuaihelani Campbell Parker, on February 8, 1908. Her name was changed to Kapiʻolani Campbell after her adoption. Only a few months after her adoption, Kapiʻolani lost both her father and grandmother. After her grandmother's death, her widower Samuel Parker petitioned to be granted Kapiʻolani's guardianship, but her mother was declared as her guardian instead. Her siblings were David Kalākaua Kawānanakoa and Lydia Liliʻuokalani Kawānanakoa. Kapiʻolani married three times. Her first marriage was to Andrew Anderson Lambert (1900–1966) in 1923, whom she divorced in 1930, She had three children by her first husband: Edward A. Kawānanakoa, Virginia Poʻomaikelani Kawānanakoa (1926–98), and Esther Kapiʻolani Kawānanakoa Marignoli (born 1928). She remarried in 1936 to Thomas Foster Ena, son of Hawaiian politician

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. They divorced in 1939. She married a third time to Harry Field (1911–1964) in 1944. Field was educated at Punahou School, Honolulu, Oahu, and

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at Corvallis, Oregon, and served as

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of the Hawaiian Civic Club from 1952 to 1953 and Senator of the

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between 1963 and 1964. Among other things, from 1945 she was the Regent of the Hale o na Alii o Hawaii (House of Chiefs of Hawaii). On the subject of the restoration of the Hawaiian monarchy, she is quoted to have said: "If America wanted to do something on her own accord to restore the monarchy, that would be all right... but no Hawaiian would do anything to hurt America. We love America too much." She died on Maui of a stroke, on April 8, 1961. There were plans to bury her at a new burial plot at the Royal Mausoleum, but her widower Harry Field felt uncomfortable about the prospect of being buried alongside her at the Royal Mausoleum. Instead, he had her buried in the

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on the Kawānanakoa family plot.

Family tree

* Kawānanakoa family tree

References

1903 births 1961 deaths House of Kawānanakoa Pretenders to the Hawaiian throne Hawaiian princesses Burials at Oahu Cemetery {{Hawaii-royal-stub