House Order of Successions
Hawai'i
In 1844, His Majesty King Kamehameha III, in collaboration with the National Assembly in Lahaina, declared Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth Keka'aniau La'anui, among other young member of the royal family, to be eligible for the throne of Hawaii. This was enacted as law and was continued in all subsequent constitutions of the Kingdom of Hawaii. Princess Keka'aniau's next-in-line successor was her only niece, Her Royal Highness Princess Theresa Owana Ka'ohelelani La'anui, and that princess's descendants. Central to the claim advanced by the House of Laanui' is an 1844 listing of fifteen students of the Chiefs Children's School endorsed by Kamehameha III as "Princes and Chiefs eligible to be Rulers" (in time, five of them did), which included Elizabeth Keka'aniau.