Kuhina Nui
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Kuhina Nui was a powerful office in the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi 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 Mi
Queen Kaahumanu
Elizabeth Kinau
Kekauluohi
Keoni Ana
Kamehameha II
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Kamehameha II was the second king of the Kingdom of Hawaii from 1819 to 1824. His birth name was Liholiho and full name was Kalaninui kua Liholiho i ke kapu ʻIolani. It was lengthened to Kalani Kaleiʻ
Kuhina Nui
…time before the Kuhina Nui Kalanimoku, a trusted chief of Kamehameha, was the Kālaimoku until Kamehameha established the office of the Kuhina Nui. When King Kamehameha II assumed the throne in 1819, his father's favorite wife, Queen Kaʻahumanu, told him Kamehameha I had wished for her to rule the kingdom alongside him…
Portrait of Kamehameha II, drawn by John Hayter, 1824.
The royal yacht Haʻaheo o Hawaiʻi
Sketch in London just before his death
In the royal box at London, 1824