Lydia Kamekeha Liliuokalani

Liliuokalani, Lydia Kamekeha (1838–1917), last queen of Hawaii, who reigned 1891–93. She succeeded her brother, King Kalakaua. When she tried to assert her royal powers, American sugar planters living in Hawaii fomented a revolt in which she lost her throne. She wrote the well-known farewell song “Aloha Oe.”