David Kalākaua Kawānanakoa (March 10, 1904 – May 20, 1953), also known as Prince Koke, was a member of the House of Kawānanakoa and the only son 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. Born into Hawaiian nobility, Kawānanakoa grew up the royal court of his uncle Kin ...

and Princess Abigail Campbell Kawānanakoa.

Life

He was born on March 10, 1904, at

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. He was christened at the St. Augustine's Church on May 22, 1904. His siblings were

Abigail Kapiolani Kawānanakoa Abigail Helen Kapiʻolani Kawānanakoa (March 14, 1903 – April 8, 1961) was a member of the House of Kawānanakoa and the eldest daughter of Prince David Kawānanakoa and Princess Abigail Campbell Kawānanakoa. Life She was born in Honolulu, ...

and Lydia Liliuokalani Kawānanakoa. He was educated abroad due to his father's status as a former prince and politician. He attended

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, in

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;

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, and Belmont Military Academy,

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. Kawānanakoa served in

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with the

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. Kawānanakoa married three times: in 1929 to Eileen Hutchins, daughter of

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Charles Thomas Hutchins, USN, and

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of the

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. He divorced Eileen in 1931 and remarried to Gertrude Leilani (October 17, 1904 – January 26, 1978) in 1941. She was the former wife of Lindsay Anton Faye, and she later married George Rossman Humphrey. He entered a

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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

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. Four years before, Kawānanakoa had received a suspended sentence for killing a woman due to his reckless driving. He confessed to the murder of Kinslea and was sentenced to several years in prison. Kawānanakoa married a third time, on October 27, 1949, to Cecelia Kuliaikanuʻuwaiʻaleʻale Parker-Waipa (1907–1981), daughter of Stephen Keaolani Parker-Waipa and Helen McCabe Wong and granddaughter of Robert Parker Waipa, a former Royal Guard captain for King Kalākaua. Kawānanakoa died of a

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, Oahu, on May 20, 1953, at the age of 49. He was buried there in the

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at Mauna Ala in Nuuanu Valley. He was the last royal to be interred at the Royal Mausoleum. He died without children. The Kawānanakoa family survives through the descendants of his sisters

and Lydia Liliuokalani Kawānanakoa.

References

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