A famous fire, a secret engagement, and a fateful ride.

Welcome back! This is the fourth and final installment in the story of Princess Ka‘iulani of Hawai‘i.

When we last left Ka‘iulani, she was still in Europe hoping there was a way to bring back the Hawaiian monarchy. But when even the president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, failed to achieve that goal, she realized it was time to move on.

Her father joined her in Europe, where the two of them lived a nomadic life drifting between Menton, Paris, London, and Scotland. Along the way, she made friends, found a "Father Confessor," and had a killer headache that actually saved her life.

But eventually, she and her father realized their place was in Hawai‘i.

When she left, she was a girl of thirteen. Now, she was a young woman of 22. Things could never would never be the same.

For starters, there was endless drama over her love life. What happened between her and her hanai cousin, Kawānanakoa, if anything? We'll dive into the controversy surrounding their purported engagement and see how her aunt, Dowager Queen Kapi‘olani, affected the outcome.

We'll also see what happens when the winds of war shift America's attention to Spain or, to be more accurate, the Philippines (a Spanish possession at the time). The SpanishAmerican War changed everything for Hawai‘i, cementing its future and destroying all hopes for the return of the monarchy.

With no future as the ruler of her country, we'll see Ka‘iulani drift into fatalism wondering what purpose her life serves and whether she matters. We'll see that fatalism affect her behavior and contribute to her early death.

The end of our story is a tearjerker it gets me every time. Fair warning, you guys. Have a tissue at hand.

In case you missed them:
Part 1:    • Princess Ka‘iulani of Hawai‘i: Part 1  
Part 2:    • Part 2: Princess Ka‘iulani of Hawai‘i  
Part 3:    • Part 3: Princess Ka‘iulani of Hawai‘i  

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Chapters

00:00 Introduction
00:52 Livin' on a Prayer
07:50 Trial by Fire
13:27 There's No Place Like Home
17:07 Will They or Won't They?
22:46 The Spoils of War
32:08 Citizen (Sugar) Cane
35:22 Spear of the Wind
41:42 Thank You
43:46 Credits

Sources

There are a lot! You can find them all here: https://girlinthetiara.com/princessk...

Pronunciations

I studied for hours before recording and did my best to pronounce Hawaiian names and places. I even made an audio supercut cheatsheet of pronunciations to study clipped from interviews, broadcasts, podcasts, and more. I'm afraid I'll never get "Kalakaua" right, despite hours and hours of attempting it and rerecording. Out of respect for the Hawaiian language and what its native speakers have been through, I'm determined to keep trying. I apologize for anything I got terribly wrong.

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ABOUT THE GIRL IN THE TIARA

I tell stories about fascinating royal women. Join me as I follow these women and their jewels across generations and countries, through wars and revolutions and — sometimes — into darkness and disappearance and destruction.

This isn't the kind of history your professor lectured about. Instead, think of this as conversational history, like a mashup of Drunk History and The Crown. Yes, there's a little swearing. There's also humor and heart and a boatload of compassion for these amazing royal women.

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I never intended to start a channel or a website about tiaras and royal history. But a midlife crisis forced me to reexamine my life. I gave up fiction writing after selfpublishing 9 of the 10 books I'd written and earning next to nothing.

Instead of the misery of marketing books, I turned to my first love...royal history. So here I am, a 40something burnout, trying to start over by recapturing her love of history, royal women, and their jewels.