Monday Reads

 Obituary:  Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa, 96, the Hawaiian multimillionaire dubbed the "last Hawaiian princess," has died.  

Snip:

James Campbell, her great-grandfather, was an Irish businessman who made his fortune as a sugar plantation owner and one of Hawaii´s largest landowners.

He had married Abigail Kuaihelani Maipinepine Bright. Their daughter, Abigail Wahiika`ahu`ula Campbell, married Prince David Kawananakoa, who was named an heir to the throne.

Their daughter Lydia Kamaka`eha Liliu`okulani Kawananakoa Morris had Abigail with her husband William Jeremiah Ellerbrock.

After the prince died, his widow adopted their grandchild, the young Abigail, which strengthened her claim to a princess title. She acknowledged in an interview with Honolulu Magazine in 2021 that had the monarchy survived, her cousin Edward Kawananakoa would be in line to be the ruler, not her.

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The Republican Party is withering away, but most of its supporters don't yet realize it.

The author doesn't note it, but it was Nixon's "Southern Strategy" that was destructive to the party in the longrun.

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