Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1967Vol. 38, No. 7

Royal Album

pp. 43-46 · Read in the full issue

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[?]g George Tupou I, on the throne from 1845-93, as the first king of united Tonga.

King George Tupou II, 1893-1918.

Queen Salote Tupou III, 1918-65.

King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV.

King George II, father of Queen Salote, in his coro nation robes after the opening of his first Parliament after accession to the throne in 1893.

Queen Salote in 1958. This is how she will be remembered.

The 18-year-old Queen Salote at her coronation in 1918. With her is her Prince Consort, Prince Tungi, father of King Taufa'ahau.

The King and Queen, as Crown Prince Tungi and Princess Mata'aho, at their wedding in June, 1947.

The King and Queen lead the mourners at the funeral of Queen Salote in Nukualofa in December, 1965.

Members of the Tongan royal family with the Governor of Fiji, Sir Derek Jakeway and Lady Jakeway, taken in Tonga not long before Salote's death.

From left, Tungi, Lady Jakeway, Princess Mata'aho and one of her sons, Prince Aho'eitu, Sir Derek, Princess Melenaite and her husband, Tu'ipelehake, who is Tungi's brother. Tu'ipelehake is now Premier of Tonga.

The Tongan regalia.

The royal chapel, Nukualofa, where the coronation took place.

Inside the royal chapel. A recent photograph by August Hettig.

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