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Tongan royal cousins' marry plans shock

Tongan royal cousins' marry plans shock | Stuff.co.nz
Two of Tonga's royal cousins have announced they are to marry each other.
The planned wedding of two closely related people has caused shock within Tongan circles but has long been feared as the strict rules around who royals can marry has led to a smaller pool of eligible candidates.
The Royal Palace in courtly language says that the second in line to the throne, 26-year-old Prince Siaosi Tuku'aho - or better known as 'Ulukalala - is "courting" his cousin, 24-year-old Lady Sinaitakala Fakafanua.
They are cousins on both sides of their families and have largely spent their lives together in the small royal world of Nuku'alofa.
 
Queen Mother of Tonga celebrates with West Valley congregation | Deseret News
The congregation of the Tongan United Methodist Church here accomplished something so impressive recently, the Queen Mother of Tonga herself came all the way to Utah to celebrate with them.
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The 85-year-old queen mother addressed the congregation during a prayer and rededicatory service in the building's chapel. Men and women in traditional dress sang and played instruments during the 90-minute service conducted entirely in Tongan.
After the rededication, the 300-plus member crowd took the festivities outside, where youth danced and sang and the congregation feasted at tables lined with roasted pigs and elaborate fruit displays.
The queen mother received a key to the city on Wednesday from West Valley City Mayor Mike Winder and met with Gov. Gary Herbert on Thursday. She plans to stay in Utah for about two weeks.
 
PUBLIC HOLIDAY, BIG FETE FOR TONGA KING’S BIRTHDAY - July 29, 2011
HM King George Tupou V's official birthday will be celebrated with a public holiday on Monday, August 1 when the King attends a military parade followed by a Royal Luncheon and traditional dancing performances at Pangai Lahi.
Lt Commander Solomone Savelio told Matangi Tonga that the United States Marine Band and Australian Army Band would join the Tonga Defence Services at the military parade, on August 1.
Two Military Tattoo will follow on two nights at Pangai Lahi, firstly on Tuesday, August 2 and again on Wednesday, August 3 with demonstrations by all TDS units, as well as the US Marine and the Australian bands.
The King (63) was born on May 4, 1948. The King decreed that his official birthday be changed to August 1 the date of his Coronation in 2008.
 
King of Tonga has cancerous kidney removed ‎

AFP: Tonga king has cancerous kidney removed in LA
Tongan King George Tupou V has undergone successful surgery in Los Angeles to remove his right kidney after a "significant" tumour was found, according to local reports.
The Pacific island monarch went under the knife at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre and is expected to return home on Saturday, the Mantangi Tonga website said, adding that the operation took place last month.
 
King George Tupou V | Tongan Monarch Attends Kings... | Stuff.co.nz
King George Tupou V of Tonga celebrated 50 years since leaving primary school by hosting a luncheon at Cotter House in Remuera where he honoured the only remaining two teachers and one nurse still surviving from that period.
The monarch is in Auckland for the 50th reunion of his class from Kings School.
On Friday he presented honours to two teachers, a school nurse and two former classmates at Cotter House - a Regency style luxury hotel.
[...] Asked today what memories he has of boarding in New Zealand the King replied, "only good ones, many friends. But it is unfair to waffle on about those times".
 
ABC Radio Australia News:Stories - Drug charges threaten Tongan nobility's integrity
Tonga's opposition leader has said drug smuggling allegations against a Tongan noble raises questions about the integrity of the country's nobility.
Former Parliament Speaker, Lord Tuilakepa was allegedly bribed by a crime syndicate as part of a plan to ship tonnes of cocaine into Australia through the Pacific nation.
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King Siaosi Tupou V of Tonga has been callled on to restore the Tongan nobility's integrity following Lord Tuilakepa's drug case.

Choirs welcome Tonga princess to Salt Lake City | Deseret News
Trinity Choir sings to Princess Salote Mafile'o Pilolevu Tuita at an event Sunday evening sponsored by the National Tongan American Society in Salt Lake City. Seventeen choirs from the Tongan community, youth groups and churches sang Christmas songs to honor the princess who is the sister of the current King of Tonga. [...]
An award ceremony was held Saturday where local leaders and citizens who have served the Tongan community participated in welcoming the only daughter of the late King Tau Tupou IV. She was accompanied by her husband, Lord Tuita, Consul General of Tonga to San Francisco and their daughters Moheofo and Ika Mna.
 
Daughter of Crown Princely couple graduates from university

Princess Angelika Mata'aho graduates with second Masters degree
TRH Crown Prince Tupouto’a-Lavaka and Crown Princess Nanasipau’u Tuku’aho’s eldest and only daughter, HRH Princess Angelika Latūfuipeka Halaevalu Mata'aho Napua-Okalani Tuku'aho graduated from the Australian National University early this month, with a Master of Business.
This is the second Masters degree that HRH Princess Mata’aho attained from ANU as she also graduated last year with a first Master’s degree in Management.
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In 2004, the Princess graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration from the International University in Geneva, Switzerland. She is also an ex-student of Queen Salote College and the Tonga Side School, Nuku'alofa.
 
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Tonga marriage raises issues of genes and cost | Stuff.co.nz
Two of Tonga's royal cousins are getting married, prompting debate on whether the gene pool is becoming too narrow.
Two great-grandchildren of the late Queen Salote will wed on May 5.
Second-in-line to the throne, 27-year-old Siaosi Manumataongo 'Alaivahamama'o 'Aho'eitu Konstantin Tuku'aho – and now referred to as Prince 'Ulukalala – will marry 25-year-old Sinaitakala Fakafanua, a lesser member of the royal family.
"They want to keep the royal blood to their own family," veteran pro-democracy politician 'Akilisi Pohiva says.
"They are too close. I do not know about biological effects of two close bloods mixed together, but I think they need new blood from outside."
Tongan royal marriages are always arranged, with love only a part of it, and have to be approved by the monarch, King George Tupou IV.
Successive monarchs have tried to keep marriages within the family, but that has proved difficult, with there being only nine marriageable women and seven single men – now reduced by one on either side.
 
Sad that the marriage of the oldest Princess collapsed, but good her parents are so supportive.
 
Mourning for Tongan King officially ends
Tongans today can officially get out of their black clothing and stop mourning the late King George Tupou V.
He died in Hong Kong on March 18. While the country would normally mourn a monarch for 100 days, the new King Tupou VI has, without explanation, cut it short. "In accordance with the wishes of His Majesty King Tupou VI regarding the period of State mourning, His Majesty's Cabinet hereby declares that the period of State mourning proclaimed on 19 March, 2012, is hereby revoked, and the new official period of State mourning shall be from Monday, 19 March, 2012, until Saturday, 31 March, 2012, inclusive," chief secretary Busby Kautoke said in a gazette notice.
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A nice video with footage of the late HM King Siaosi Tupou V and his sister HRH Princess Pilolevu as well as the Duke and Duchess of Gloucestor.
 
Another Royal Wedding but this time it's marred by controversy as Crown Prince of Tonga marries his cousin
Her name is just a little more difficult to pronounce than Kate Middleton. But the new bride of the Crown Prince of Tonga is brushing aside difficulties foreigners have of addressing her, along with questions about whether she should ever have married her cousin. The bride of the Pacific island nation's Crown Prince Tupouto’a Ulukalala is Miss Sinaitakala Tuk’imatamoana ‘I Fanakavakilangi Fakafanua.
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I think they are second cousins only. I just read an article that they share the same great-grandparents, not the same grandparents.
 
The couple are indeed second cousins.

HM Queen Salote Tupou III (1900-1965) -> HM Sia'osi Taufa'ahau Tupou IV (1918-2006) -> HM King Tupou VI (b.1959) -> HRH Crown Prince Siaosi Tuku’aho (b.1985)

HM Queen Salote Tupou III (1900-1965) -> HRH Prince Sione Ngu Manumata'ongo Tupou (1922-1999) -> HRH Princess Sinaitakala Fakafanua (b.1953) -> Hon Sinaitakala Tu’imatamoana’i Fanakavakilangi (b.1987)

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Biri said:
Tonga is probably the only Christian monarchy when mariages are arranged.

The marriage of Prince Charles and Diana was widely believed to have been arranged mainly to stop Charles marrying Camilla.
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This is the wrong thread to get into a debate about this, so if you'd like to continue it, we can probably find a better place to do it, but I just wanted to point out this is factually inaccurate. Camilla was already married before Charles began courting Diana.
 
I'm not trying to get into a debate, all I'm pointing out is that Tonga isn't the only Christian monarchy that has arranged marriage. The queen mother and Diana's grandmother, lady Fermoy, were friends and it's widely believed that they were instrumental in the two being brought together. Camilla's marriage was over in all but name by that time.
 
Even the Bishop that married Charles and Diana said the marriage was arranged. Now, who did the arranging, was not stated.
 
Noble Consort Ming said:
I think they are second cousins only. I just read an article that they share the same great-grandparents, not the same grandparents.
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They're "double" second cousins, each sharing two sets of great-grandparents. The bride's parents are both first cousins of the King.
 
Is there any information as to when the coronation of the new King of Tonga will take place?
 
Still no word on if or when the new king will have his coronation?
 
NGalitzine said:
Still no word on if or when the new king will have his coronation?
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The 18th of March will mark the first anniversary of the passing of King George Tupou V. Maybe the coronation of King Tupou VI will be announced after that?
 
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