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Elisiva Fusipala Taukiʻonetuku

The Year of Queen Sālote Tupou III – The Queen’s half-sister: ʻElisiva Fusipala Taukiʻonetuku (Part two)

Read part one here. Fortunately for Fusipala, Queen Sālote was sympathetic, and she did not put pressure on her sister to marry. Early in 1928, Fusipala joined the Tupou College Choir for some of their concerts. She danced, played the piano and sang. She developed a romantic attachment with one of the commoner boys in [read more]

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ʻElisiva Fusipala Taukiʻonetuku
Elisiva Fusipala Taukiʻonetuku

The Year of Queen Sālote Tupou III – The Queen’s half-sister: ʻElisiva Fusipala Taukiʻonetuku (Part one)

Princess Sālote’s mother, Lavinia, died in 1902 when Sālote was just two years old. Her parents’ marriage had been quite controversial as King George had originally been meant to marry Princess ʻOfakivavaʻu, but he had chosen Lavinia instead. With Lavinia dead and in order to appease those who had been offended by his first marriage, [read more]