Battlefields And Ballrooms: A Whirlwind Global Tour Set Up Prince Kuhio For A Life In Politics 0 Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole spent part of the early 1900s on African safari. Then he began tracking the most elusive quarry: Elected political office.
In early 1900, Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole had many reasons for wanting to leave Hawaii forever.
Raised as a prince in the household of King Kalakaua, a direct descendant of King Kaumualii of Kauai, he had grown up thinking he might one day rule the kingdom. But the overthrow of the monarchy and the annexation by the United States robbed his nation of its autonomy and stripped him of the role he had been groomed to play.
Feeling an unbearable sense of loss, Kuhio and his wife, Elizabeth, fled the islands leaving those cares behind them, setting off by ship from Honolulu and traveling the globe for the next 18 months. They told newspaper reporters they did not think they would ever return to the islands.
