Queen Emma of Hawaii
Emma
Queen Consort of the Hawaiian Islands
Tenure 11 Jan 1855 — 30 Nov 1863
Spouse Kamehameha IV
Issue
Albert Edward Kauikeaouli Kaleiopapa a
Kamehameha
Full name
Emalani (Emma) Kalanikaumakaamano
Kaleleonalani Naea Rooke
Detail
Titles and styles
HM The Queen
HRH The Queen Dowager
Father High Chief George Naea
Mother High Chieftess Fanny Kekelaokalani
Young
Born
2 January 1836(1836-01-02)
Kawaihae (Pelekane), Hawaii
Died
25 April 1885 (aged 49)
Honolulu, Oahu
Burial Mauna Ala Royal Mausoleum
Emma Kalanikaumakaamano Kalele-
onalani Naea Rooke, Queen Consort of
Hawaii (January 2, 1836 – April 25, 1885)
was queen to King Kamehameha IV from
1856 to his death in 1863. She tried to run as
Queen against King David Kalakaua.
Isabella Bird, on her travels to Hawaii,
met Queen Emma and described her as very
British and Hawaiian in many ways:
Miss W. kindly introduced me to
Queen Emma, or Kaleleonalani, the
widowed queen of Kamehameha IV.,
whom you will remember as having
visited England a few years ago,
when she received great attention.
She has one-fourth of English blood
in her veins, but her complexion is
fully as dark as if she were of un-
mixed Hawaiian descent, and her
features, though refined by educa-
tion and circumstances, are also
Hawaiian; but she is a very pretty,
as well as a very graceful woman.
She was brought up by Dr. Rooke,
an English physician here, and
though educated at the American
school for the children of chiefs, is
very English in her leanings and
sympathies, an attached member of
the English Church, and an ardent
supporter of the “Honolulu Mission.”
Socially she is very popular, and her
exceeding kindness and benevol-
ence, with her strongly national feel-
ing as an Hawaiian, make her much
beloved by the natives. [1]
in an interview, Kanahele, author of Queen
Emma: Hawaii’s remarkable queen said :
She was different from any of her
contemporaries. Emma is Emma is
Emma. There’s no one like her. A de-
vout Christian who chose to be bap-
tized in the Anglican church in
adulthood