Tongan Monarchs - Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, George Tupou V, Namoa, Tu'itatui, George Tupou I of Tonga, Tu'i Kanokupolu, George Tupou II of Tonga (Paperback)

Chapters: Taufa'ahau Tupou Iv, George Tupou V, Namoa, Tu'itatui, George Tupou I of Tonga, Tu'i Kanokupolu, George Tupou Ii of Tonga, Salote Tupou Iii of Tonga, Line of Succession to the Tongan Throne, Tu?i Tonga, Tu'i Ha'atakalaua, List of Monarchs of Tonga, Momo, Royal Palace, Tonga, Talatama, Laufilitonga, Ma'afu-'o-Limuloa, Tupou Malohi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 69. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Tufahau Tupou IV, King of Tonga, GCMG, GCVO, KBE, KStJ (4 July 1918 10 September 2006) son of Queen Slote Tupou III and her consort Prince Viliami Tung Mailefihi, was the king of Tonga from the death of his mother in 1965 until his own death in 2006. He was married to Queen Halaevalu Mataaho Ahomee, born in 1926, and the couple had four children: The king's full baptismal name was Siaosi Tufahau Tupoulahi, but he was soon better known by the traditional title reserved for crown princes: Tupoutoa, (bestowed in 1937) later replaced by the title he inherited from his father: Tung (or using both: Tupoutoa-Tung, in that time written as Tuboutoa-Tugi). He kept the Tung title until his death. From a traditional point of view he was not only the Tung, which is the direct descendent from the Tui Haatakalaua, but he was also, on becoming king, the 22nd Tui Kanokupolu. The link with the Tui Tonga, was more indirect. He was not a Tui Tonga too (as that office has gone over into the Kalaniuvalu line), but his grandmother Lavinia Veiongo (wife of George Tupou II) was the great granddaughter of Laufilitonga, the last Tui Tonga, and his wife Halaevalu Mataaho (not to be confused with the king's wife of the same name and same family), who was the daughter of Tupou Ahomee, who was the daughter of Ltfuipeka, the Tamah (sister of the Tui Tonga). By consequence, the king's daughter, Pilolevu, was ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=38760