- slow dance with my muse ( to princess kaiulani )
a delegation desirous of her country, her crown dallies upon the edge of the dancefloor. vultures awaiting her carcass. ready to consume. she is no caterer to their wishes nor their wants. what she will have must be won with blood, with sacrifice. but she cannot bear to give such to scoundrels and scam artists who serve under oppressive stars and stripes.
instead, she allows the servant of her namesake to be the first to make a genuine offer of allyship for her appraisal.
the musicians employed waste no opportunity - and they are delved into a sweeping waltz - at war with the room at large, who would seek to disturb or disrupt such clear yet clandestine negotiations.
"england served as second home to me, exile though it was." her steps are light, well lengthened to his stride, "perhaps we may make a marriage - one victoria to another. keep the colonies from corrupting and casting out yet A N O T H E R monarchy."
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“Princess Ka'iulani of Hawaii was beautiful and intelligent. Too bad she lived a short life, she deserved so much more.” - Submitted by Anonymous
“The Kaiulani Princess of Hawaii was beautiful and intelligent. However, it is overrated in history. It is sad that she died early.” - Submitted by Anonymous
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The Princess Sulani House · a CC-optional build
I have to admit pivoting on this one - my original idea was to redo a build I previously made inspired by the Moana Surfrider Hotel, a beautiful turn-of-the-century hotel in Honolulu, and Iolani Palace (American Italianate). But the lot sizes and placement in Sulani make for a build of that size pretty awkward. So I began researching another idea for a historical Sulani build...
More info and download under the cut!
I came across information about ʻĀinahau, an estate where the beautiful Princess Ka'iulani grew up.
Thus, the Princess Sulani House was born! The lot can be used as a residence, or maybe a museum of Sulani Royalty. It's unfurnished except for curtains and lighting. The build is CC-free, except for a pedestal, statue, and lei which are optional (included in the download). Thank you to TheJim07 and Kalino - my lei CC is a retexture of Kalino's CAS lei. I used textures and colors from real plumeria flowers found on the web for this. You can download the lei separately below. Someday when I'm better at making CC I plan to come back to the idea of making a whole statue with a peacock and lei baked in.
Download The Lot at SimFileShare
Optional CC (Included):
TheJim07 Stately Pedestal
TheJim07 Statue of a Lady
Deco Lei (by me)
Packs Required:
Discover University
Island Living
Download the Lei Necklace (CAS and Deco) at SimFileShare
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This lovely Victorian gown has been used at least four times over the years. It was first seen in the 2003 remake of The Forsyte Saga, where it was seen on Gillian Kearney playing June Forsyte. In 2009 it was spotted on Q'orianka Kilcher as Princess Ka'iulani in Princess Ka'iulani. The gown made a third appearance in the 2013 episode of Doctor Who entitled The Crimson Horror, where it was seen on Jenna Coleman as Clara. That same year it was also seen in The Christmas Candle on Lesley Manville as Bea Haddington.
Costume Credit: Cintia, Jesk, Shrewsbury Lasses
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Note: This gown has been reblogged from a previous entry in order to update it with additional sightings.
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The Dirge of Ka’iulani by Agnes Rose-Soley
“Our Flag! That was pulled down. The Hawaiian Ladies’ Patriotic Society wrote to Admiral Miller, asking to be allowed its possession. He never answered. My own flag, the Royal Standard, was shown to me by a Washington young lady in her drawing room.” - Queen Liliuokalani.
“I have nothing to live for now. They have taken all my life from me.” – Princess Ka’iulani.
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Kaiulani! Kaiulani! Princess of the jeweled seas,
Kaiulani! Kaiulani! sighs the scented tropic breeze.
Kaiulani! dove-notes echo through palm fronds and darkling trees.
Kaiulani! Thy brown nation, mourning lowly on its knees,
Moans and wails in plaintive cadence, draining sorrow to the lees,
And the burden of its sadness over reef and ocean flees.
Send back our Flag!
Oh men of white ambition and of power,
Who robbed our Daughter of her queenly dower,
Relent to this, her dark, her silent hour
Give back our Flag!
Above her where she lies, a fragile flower,
Stricken where ruthless hands despoiled her bower,
While we crouch round, our tears a blinding shower,
Hang up our Flag!
Send back our Flag!
Ye mock us with white sympathy and sigh,
With formal speech, strange flag hung half-mast high,
No flag have we above her tomb to fly,
Give back our Flag!
What boots it that our nimble fingers ply,
That leis of royal shade about her lie,
That royal kahili still meets the eye?
Give her her Flag!
Send back her Flag!
Ye broke her heart, oh men with white men’s greed,
Her royal heart, with grasping word and deed,
All careless of a royal virgin’s need,
Give back her Flag!
‘Tis such a little thing for which we plead,
Little to you, for have ye not decreed,
That all Hawaii’s treasures are your meed?
Return her Flag!
Send back our Flag!
Ye won it not, ye wrenched it. We were free
To worship our own chiefs of high degree---
Ye trampled on them and their royalty,
Give back her Flag!
Shall your white women hold it fast,
and She
Who sleeps among the moaning of the sea,
Even in Death’s sad sleep despoiled be?
Bring back her Flag!
Send back our Flag!
Ye came and preached your tale of love to all,
Of God’s great tenderness whate’er befall,
Of white man’s answer to brown man’s call,
And stole our Flag!
Doth not our legend ‘mid your precepts fall---
How runs it? “Mene Mene, on the wall”---
Ah, lest your pride of greatness fade and pall,
Give back our Flag!
Send back our Flag!
“They took my life,” our darling made her moan,
Have ye no pity, are your hearts of stone?
Unto her heart, now pulseless, and alone,
Give back the Flag!
Kaiulani! Kaiulani! Princess of the jeweled isles,
Kaiulani! whom our love and gladness evermore beguiles,
Can’st thou hear the sound of weeping, rising thro’ they palm-crowned aisles?
Where thy royal mamo woos his golden mate with feathered wiles,
Where we crouch beneath thy banyan while the white man struts and smiles,
Can’st thou hear the sound of weeping, rising thro’ thy palm-crowned aisles?
As Published in The Independent, Honolulu, May 13, 1899
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“One Royal from the Past I would like to meet is Princess Kaʻiulani, the last Crown Princess of the Hawaiian Kingdom. She was Half-Hawaiian, Half Scottish, born to Princess Miriam Likelike and Archibald Scott Cleghorn, a Scottish businessman. She never got to be Queen but she is known for bravely addressing the American people at 17 years old and persuading President Cleveland not to annex the Hawaiian Kingdom. Ka'iulani was also instrumental in changing the world's prejudiced view of Hawaiian people. The Scottish Author Robert Louis Stevenson was a friend of hers and he even wrote a poem for Ka'iulani calling her the Island Rose. 👸🏴 🏝 🌹” - Submitted by Anonymous
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