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The Society of American Royalty
Was started in July,1997, after the Oukah returned from a two week long trip to Hawaii at the request of Her Royal Highness, Princess Kapiolani (Toledo). It's purpose is to verify the authenticity of American Royalty, which consists only of the Oukah and his brother, Prince Edward (others in their family prefer to live as private people) and the nearly 100 descendants in Hawaii of Her Royal Highness, the Princess Theresa Owana Laanui, of the Kamehameha Dynasty. Some people today are claiming to be direct descendants of Kamehameha the Great (hoping we will translate that as King Kamehameha the Conqueror of all the Islands) when some of them, at least, are descendants of Kamehameha Ai'luau of Maui and Molokai, a generation before the Conqueror. For more information on the Hawaiian Royal Family living today, go to:
http://members.tripod.com/~lady_wistfulee/herself.html
and you will be in direct contact with Her Royal Highness, Princess Celine Kapiolani of Hawaii.
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A Government or a Court?
The Oukah does not run a government (although it was because of him that the governments of the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole in Oklahoma came into being), but does preside over his own court.
What is a "royal court"? Well, it is nothing formal at all, and may or may not meet in formal sessions. It is, in fact, the family of a royal or titled person, their friends who gather, officials who serve, the servants (if any) of the household, even the hangers-on (and sometimes a court jester, or two). It does give the Oukah the right to make decisions about royal matters, however; and being the highest-ranking person in America (royal or otherwise) he has done so on several occasions.
One ruling from the Oukah was about the royal titles themselves. He ruled that they were under international law "incorporeal inheritaments"....that is, other than physical assets that were valuable and inheritable. The Oukah title that he inherited goes back to time immemorial, and the Emperor title back to 1729-1730, which can be learned about elsewhere on these pages. When the Cherokee Constitution was written and ratified, the old ways were never abandoned, or done-away-with. They continued through the Oukah's g-g-grandfather, William Shorey Coodey, who also can be read about in a very touching article on this site. The same ruling was applied to the Hawaiians, after the Oukah became a student of that history.
His Majesty ruled that when Queen Liliuokalani abdicated direct rule (provisionally, at that) she did not do away with the titles and positions, or the relationships of the people. Neither did the provisional government that illegally replaced that good Queen. They are still in existence, and are legally owned by every descendant of Her Royal Highness, Princess Theresa Owana Laanui. His Majesty has notified them of that fact, and has visited with some of those descendants in Hawaii.
His Majesty also noted that the USofA constitution forbids the federal government from granting titles of nobility, but that in no way influences either his titles nor the Hawaiian titles, which were in existence long before there was a government of the USofA.
His Majesty also noted that it takes a status equal to the granting to effectively abolish, and there is no such governmental status today either at a federal or state level. That leaves the Cherokee and Hawaii royals to function as they please, in their own interests or that of their people, without the influence of a foreign government.
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PRINCESS DIANA
One of the rulings that the Oukah made about two years ago concerned Princess Diana. At the Society we discussed how wrong, cruel, and downright niggardly it was of the British royal family to have stripped her of her status as a royal. Some people say that her title was taken away from her -- it was not -- it was the Style of Address (Royal Highness) that indicated the status. The Oukah in particular was outraged, saying that was not fitting for the mother of the two young princes, heirs to the throne. We then ruled that for America, and in America, Princess Diana was still a "Royal Highness" and entitled to all the respect of it.
Note: The Oukah recently said that while Princess Diana was a very attractive child, she was not so much so as an adult. She didn't have a single good feature. Her eyes were a little too close together, her nose wasn't great, and her mouth too thin. But, she learned to make the most of it, by using professional-style makeup, and became one of the most glamorous women of her day. And, her charisma was a natural!
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GAYS ARE NOT 'ROYAL'
As the Chief Genealogist, and spokesperson, for the Society, I found it my duty last year to write a letter to a Dallas "gay" publication about their terminology. There are, in the English language, many words that sound the same but are sometimes spelled differently and have different meanings. It seems that some of the gay people were called each other "queens", and sometimes even saying because of that that they were "royalty". Not so. The word they were using is a "put down" word, not a complimentary one, (look it up in the dictionary) and is not even spelled the same. They, in their ignorance, seem to have been unaware of it. The letter appeared in print like this:
September 19, 1997 DALLAS VOICE
"Quean" isn't royalty.
A reference in a recent cartoon referred to a homosexual as "royalty". This is in error. The word "quean" means a harlot, a wanton woman, and has nothing at all to do with royalty. We don't believe that it can accurately be ascribed to any man, gay or not.
Gay people are not "royal", but some royal people are gay. We know of one lesbian princess, and several gay princes. Their ethnic groups in ancient times accepted all human sexuality as normal.
We find no reason for gay people to be so disrespectful of others, like themselves or not. We all need to analyze the words we use, and we all need to keep things "straight".
Lee MacDonald
Chief Genealogist, Society of American Royalty
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Note: In the ninth century, the ancient King Alfred of England wrote: "the only thing which is good in noble descent is this...that it makes men ashamed of being worse than their elders". We agree.
The Oukah does not believe in "rank and privilege". He believes in "rank and responsibility". With all God's gifts there seem to be duties.
Note: The Society of American Royalty approves of the stated purpose of the Constantian Society about royal matters: http://members.tripod. com/~constantian/
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