Tuputupu -‘o-Pulotu Vaea, The Honourable Baroness Tuputupu ‘o Pulotu Vaea of Houma (

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Ma'afu-'o-Tukuialahi; 14 October 1928 – 29 July 2021) was a

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and

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. Vaea and her late husband, former

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Baron Vaea Siaosi ʻAlipate Halakilangi Tau’alupeoko Vaea Tupou (15 May 1921 – 7 June 2009), more commonly known as Baron Vaea, was a Tongan politician who served as Prime Minister of Tonga. Vaea was a nephew of Queen Sālote, who ruled Tonga from 191 ...

(1921–2009), are the parents of the present Queen of Tonga, Queen Nanasipau'u. She was the

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of the present

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. She was the eldest daughter of Siosaia Lausi’i, 7th Ma’afu-’o- Tukui’aulahi, of

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and his wife, ’Anaukihesina Lamipeti. The baroness and her late husband, Baron Vaea, had seven children and one adopted daughter: Queen

Nanasipauʻu Tukuʻaho Nanasipauʻu Tukuʻaho, (née The Honourable Nanasipauʻu Vaea; born 8 March 1954) is Queen of Tonga as the wife of King Tupou VI since 2012. Early life Nanasipauʻu Vaea is the daughter of the late Baron Vaea, a former Prime Minister of Tong ...

, 'Alipate Tu'ivanuavou Vaea, 'Amelia Luoluafetu'u Vaea, Luseane Luani (Dowager Lady Luani) and Cassandra Vaea (formerly Tuipelehake). Two sons, Moimoikimofuta Kaifahina Vaea,

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Edward Vaea, are deceased.

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