Emma, Queen consort of Kamehameha IV (1836 - 1885)

Emma, Queen consort of Kamehameha IV (1836 - 1885)

Hawai’i
Monarchy
Royalty
Queen Emma
Kamehameha

This photograph shows a glamorously dressed Queen Emma of Hawai’i posing near a christening font for her son, Prince Albert Kamehameha. This was gifted to her by Queen Victoria of England, his godmother. The friendship between Queen Emma and Queen Victoria proved to be a special one, as the two grew incredibly close despite being so far from one another, especially after the tragic losses of Emma’s son and their husbands. Not only did Queen Emma have English blood, but she also embraced Christianity after she and her husband requested for a church in Hawai’i and was baptised. Retrospectively, her relationship with Queen Victoria was a consolidation of her close ties and devotion to the West, an attitude that many native Hawaiians did not favour.
(See more: Hackler, Rhoda E.A., ‘“My Dear Friend”: Letters of Queen Victoria and Queen Emma’, Hawaiian Journal of History, 22 (1988). [Online] Available at:
https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10524/202/2/JL22111.pdf)
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A. A. Montano (photographer), ‘lolani Palace, Honolulu, Hawai’i.

Hawaii State Archives Digital Collections

http://gallery.hawaii.gov/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=57887

1880

Emma Azid

Hawaii State Archives
http://ags.hawaii.gov/archives/

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Visual - photograph

19th century Hawai'i