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Show Hawaiian Queen's' Odd Assertion of Kinship One of the court olllcers said to me during Queen Victoria's Jubilee : "Royalties are here from every country coun-try and among those who have come over Is Liliuokalani, queen of the Hawaiian Ha-waiian islands. She is as insistent of her royal rights as the emperor of Germany. We have consented that she should be a guest at a dinner of our queen and spend the night at Windsor castle. We have settled her place among the royalties in the procession pro-cession through London and offered her the hussars as her guard of honor. She Insists, however, that she shall have the same as the other kings, a company of the Guards. Having recognized her, we are obliged to yield." The same officer told me that at the dinner the dusky queen said to Queen Victoria : "Your majesty, I am a blood relative of yours." u "How so?" was the queen's astonished aston-ished answer. aU ''';!.:---., ;. i'-j "Why,'1 said Llliuokalanl, "my grandfather ate your Captain Oook." From "My Memories of ElKhty Years," by Chauncey M. Depew. |