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Queen Emma Kaleleonalani
Articles and information about
Queen Emma Kaleleonalani.
Queen Emma Kaleleonalani
Born: January 2, 1836 (born Emma Rooke)
Died: April 25, 1885
Co-Founder of the Queen's Medical Center
Wife of King Kamehameha IV
King Kamehameha IV and Queen Emma
Queen Emma's father was George Naea. Her mother,
Fanny Kekelaokalani Young, was the daughter of
Kamehameha I's niece Ka'oana'eha and the king's
British counselor John Young. She was adopted
by her aunt and uncle Grace and Thomas Rooke
because they had no children of their own.
She spoke Hawaiian and English and was an
accomplished musician and horseback rider.
She helped to establish a hospital to combat
the diseases that were devastating native
Hawaiians. It was named Queen's Hospital.
She had one son, Prince Albert, who was the last
child to be born to a Hawaiian Monarch. In
1862 he died of a brain fever at age 4.
King Kamehameha IV died a year later at the age of 29.
After King Lunalilo died, the Hawaiian legislature considered
appointing Dowager Queen Emma as the new ruler of Hawaii,
but they ended up selected David Kalakaua instead.
See also:
Rulers of the Hawaiian Kingdom
The Hawaiian Royal Family
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