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Kamehameha III. My strong adversion to this is that it is not substantiated in any 19th or early 29th century primary sources (newspapers or personal writings of notable chiefs and foreign residents who would have found it odd that the king was marrying a 11-year old girl when he had a living adult wife
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see reliable primary sources for these connections. Here is where I do find this claim: that interview you cited from a descendant, findagrave (unreliable), and genealogy sites (unreliable). The only addition that should be mentioned, I can see is maybe a footnote citing her descendants believe these things but we cannot treat it as a fact. --
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If you are talking about the photographs on the right, then I do not think so. Eliza Meek would have been in her 40s or 50s by this time and the woman in the photograph looks like she is in her 20s. Also this is from a series of photograph by A. A. Montano in the Hawaii State
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Kamehameha are never connected in primary sources, as far as can be seen at the moment. If either Eliza married the king or Kalawaia was the king's son, we would
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