Helena Kalokuokamaile Wilcox Salazar-Machado (April 13, 1917 – September 17, 1988) was an aspirant head of the royal family of the

Kingdom of Hawaii The Hawaiian Kingdom, or Kingdom of Hawaiʻi ( Hawaiian: ''Ko Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina''), was a sovereign state located in the Hawaiian Islands. The country was formed in 1795, when the warrior chief Kamehameha the Great, of the independent island ...

Life

Helena Kalokuokamaile Wilcox was born April 13, 1917. Her father was Robert Kalanikupuapaikalaninui Keōua Wilcox (1893–1934) of the

House of Kalokuokamaile The House of Laanui (''Hale O Laanui'' in the Hawaiian language) is a family of heirs to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii collateral to the House of Kamehameha. Both houses are branches of the House of Keōua Nui. The House of Laanui stems fr ...

, the eldest collateral branch of the

House of Kamehameha The House of Kamehameha ''(Hale O Kamehameha)'', or the Kamehameha dynasty, was the reigning Royal Family of the Kingdom of Hawaii, beginning with its founding by Kamehameha I in 1795 and ending with the death of Kamehameha V in 1872 and Lunalilo ...

. Her mother was his first wife Helen Kaleipuanani Simerson Wilburton. Her father Robert Keōua was son of Theresa Owana Kaohelelani Laanui and her second husband

Robert William Wilcox Robert William Kalanihiapo Wilcox (February 15, 1855 – October 23, 1903), nicknamed the Iron Duke of Hawaii, was a Native Hawaiian whose father was an American and whose mother was Hawaiian. A revolutionary soldier and politician, he led uprisi ...

(1855–1903). She based her claim to the Hawaiian crown on her family's descent from King

Kamehameha I Kamehameha I (; Kalani Paiea Wohi o Kaleikini Kealiikui Kamehameha o Iolani i Kaiwikapu kaui Ka Liholiho Kūnuiākea; – May 8 or 14, 1819), also known as Kamehameha the Great, was the conqueror and first ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii. T ...

's eldest half-brother Kalokuokamaile, and through her great grand aunt, Elizabeth Kekaaniau Laanui Pratt, a dynast named by King Kamehameha III, and a student at the Royal School developed to educate royal heirs. She used the regal name Kalokuokamaile II, stating that she was Kalokuokamaile's successor. Helena was ''Alii Nui'' of the Ka Lahui Hawaii Organization from 1987 until her death. She wrote a history of the Kaahumanu Society in 1980 titled ''Kaahumanu Diamond Jubilee: A Brief History''.

Family

She married Henry Mario Salazar, younger son of Manuel Bernardino Salazar by his wife María Enriqueta de la Huerta. She married secondly Henry Machado Sr. She had children from her first marriage.

Children

* Henry C. Keaweikekahialiiokamoku Salazar * Paul C. Kalokuokamaile Salazar * Michael Carl Kauhiokalani Salazar * Stephen Craig Laanui Salazar * Owana Kaohelelani Mahealani-Rose Salazar She died on September 19, 1988, at the age of 71. Despite having surviving sons, she named Owana

Kuhina Nui Kuhina Nui was a powerful office in the Kingdom of Hawaii from 1819 to 1864. It was usually held by a relative of the king and was the rough equivalent of the 19th-century European office of Prime Minister or sometimes Regent. Origin of the offic ...

and Owana's son, Noa, as ''Aliʻi Nui'' Kalokuokamaile III. She informed Owana's brothers that their sister and her son would succeed her.

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Citations

1917 births 1988 deaths House of Kalokuokamaile {{Hawaii-royal-stub