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("Barber of Seville" plays in the background)
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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