Queen Salote of Tonga: The Story of an Era 1900-1965

Elizabeth Wood-Ellem

University of Hawaii Press, Jan 1, 2001 - Literary Criticism - 376 pages

When Queen Salote of Tonga attended the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in London in 1953, she was greeted as the tallest queen of the smallest kingdom and gained universal admiration for her natural dignity and the warmth of her personality. This account of Queen Salote's life and times is more than a biography, for it also describes the politics and social structure of a small kingdom that was a world in microcosm.

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One of the great female leaders of the 20th Century. Tonga is a unique place in being the only Polynesian kingdom to maintain its culture and government through the colonial period that brought down ...

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Queen Salote was an amazing queen. She was brilliant in bringing both past and present together and making Tongans not only proud of who they are as a people but how to navigate through the influences of the western world without loosing our culture. She truly loved her people and examplified that to the world over. Sadly,there will never be another royal member in Tongas Kingdom like her!!!  

Contents

• Preface: ix
• Notes on Tongan Spelling and on Chiefly Titles: xiii
• List of Illustrations: xvii
• List of Figures: xix
• Her Mothers Daughter: 1
• Ancestors and Antecedents: 17
• A Dynastic Marriage: 34
• The First Year of a Reign: 46
• At Home at the Palace: 59
• The British Connection: 70
• Aristocrats Nobles and Lesser Chiefs: 84
• God and Tonga Are My Inheritance1: 102
• Problems with Judges: 124
• The Queens Sister Princess Fusipala: 141
• The Queens Consort Tung1 Mailefihi: 155
• The Chief Justice Plays the Champion: 170
• The Greatest Loss of All: 191
• America Invades Tonga: 200
• Mother and Sons: 222
• At the Coronation of Queen Elizaheth II: 238
• Changing Roles: 256
• Reconstructing Tradition: 268
• The Sun has Fallen Ko e La a e kuo To: 283
• Glossary: 300
• Whos Who: 305
• Notes: 319
• Selected Bibliography: 348
• Index: 356

Bibliographic information

• Title: Queen Salote of Tonga: The Story of an Era 1900-1965
• Author: Elizabeth Wood-Ellem
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, 2001
• ISBN: 0824825292, 9780824825294
• Length: 376 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Biography & Autobiography / Royalty; History / Oceania; Literary Criticism / American / Asian American