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]
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]
ʻElisiva Fusipala Taukiʻonetuku was born on 18 May 1850 as the daughter of Tēvita ʻUnga, who became Crown Prince of Tonga in 1875, and Fifita Vava’u. Her father was born to a secondary wife, so he only became Crown Prince after the death of his younger half-brother, Prince Vuna Takitakimālohi. Fusipala’s grandfather was the first [read more]
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