“Too controversial,” my project manager wrote in the comments. These businessmen later imprisoned the princess in the palace, claiming she was behind a counterrevolutionary plot that would have restored her to power. A group of white businessmen and descendants of missionaries deposed the monarch in 1893, leading to the United States’ annexation of Hawaii. There’s more to Kalākaua and Princess Lili‘uokalani’s story than most tours imply. King Kalākaua ordered the palace’s furniture from Boston, and Princess Lili‘uokalani, King David’s sister and heir, was the last Hawaiian monarch to live here. Don’t miss a stop at the regal coronation pavilion, located on the palace grounds. Flanked by palm trees, this shining example of Hawaiian renaissance architecture was built at the astronomical (for 1882) cost of $300,000. But Kalākaua’s most visible achievement was the construction of the stunning ‘Iolani Palace on our left-the only royal palace built on U.S. In addition to preserving the hula, King Kalākaua took a trip around the world, and wrote “Hawaiʻi Ponoʻī¯” (“Hawaii’s Own”), which later became the state song. Early missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands discouraged the dance for being too sexy, but, lucky for us, the fun-loving last king of Hawaii, King David Kalākaua, kept the hula alive in secret. A typical paragraph might begin:Įven hula has its heroes. During the winter of 2011, I wrote such toothless audio tours for a popular tourism company. The Hawaiian history that plays through headsets on the buses that shuttle tourists between the shops, hotels, restaurants, and beaches on Oahu is predictably bland, defanged, and heavy with half-truths.
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