Regina Kawānanakoa
Princess Regina Abigail Mary Wahiikaahuula Kawānanakoa, Princess of the House of Kawānanakoa of Hawaii was born on July 16, 1947. She was the eldest child and only daughter of Prince Edward Abner Kealiiahonui Kawānanakoa by his first wife Lila de Clark Whitaker.
She has four brothers, two full-blood and two half-blood. Her brothers, that share the same mother as Princess Regina, were Prince Edward J. Abner Keliiahonui Kawananakoa and Prince David Claren La'amea Kaumualii Kawananakoa. Prince Edward, severely disabled, was excluded from the succession by his father. Prince David renounced his rights in favour of his younger brother. Her half-brothers are Prince Quentin Kuhio Kawānanakoa, the current pretender; and Prince Andrew Piikoi Kawānanakoa, an estate agent.
Due to [ male prefernce primogeniture]], she is the 9th in the Kawānanakoa line of the Hawaiian throne after five children of her half-brother Andrew. In the Line of Liliuokalani Kawānanakoa, headed by her first cousin once removed, Princess Abigail Kekaulike Kawananakoa, she is 11th in line after her nieces and nephews.
Her names Abigail and Wahiikaahuula are old names of the family. After her grandmother, great grandmother, and great-great grandmother; Princess Abigail Kapiolani, Princess Abigail Wahiikaahuula and High Chiefess Abigail Kuaihelani Maipinepine Kalaikini Campbell Parker. Kaumualii: King of Kauai, containing excerpts from early writers on the life and times of Kaumualii, Regina's ancestor, was published by herself in 1999.
Princess Regina married twice. In November 1980, at Honolulu, Oahu, Regina married childhood friend and High Chief Henry James Bartels, a relative of Harry Montague Nuuanu Gooding Field, the late husband of Princess Abigail Kapiolani Kawananakoa. The nuptial was featured in a November 1980 Honolulu Magazine story because of both of their ties to royal Hawaiian lineage. Her husband was Curator of the Iolani Palace (1975-1997) and Director of Washington Place Museum (1998-2003). Bartels and Regina divorced prior to 1990 but remained close friends until Bartels' death on April 20, 2003. Her former husband had overseen completion of the restoration of Iolani Palace. Regina was at his bedside in Hoag Memorial Presbyterian Hospital, Newport Beach, California, when he died. She was quoted as saying "I was playing the queen's (Liliuokalani's) music for him when he died, and 'Aloha 'Oe' came on." She later married Samuel Sanchez. She is beyond childbearing years, and her place in the line of succession would pass on to her other relatives.
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