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== Marriage to Archibald Scott Cleghorn == [[File:Likelike and Archibald.jpg|thumb|alt=See caption|Likelike and her husband, Archibald Scott Cleghorn, during the 1870s]] Likelike married [[Archibald Scott Cleghorn]], a businessman from [[Scotland]] almost twice her age, on September 22, 1870; Cleghorn was 35, and Likelike was 19. They were married in an [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] ceremony officiated by Reverend Charles George Williamson, rector of [[Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew (Honolulu)|St. Andrew's Cathedral]]. The wedding was at [[Washington Place]], her sister Liliʻuokalani's residence.{{sfn|The Pacific Commercial Advertiser|1870}} Cleghorn had fathered daughters Rose, Helen and Annie with his part-Hawaiian mistress (Elizabeth Lapeka Pauahi Grimes) before the marriage, and Likelike accepted the children.{{sfn|Cleghorn|Cleghorn|Argow|Allen|1979|pages=55, 68–69}} The couple initially lived in a mansion on Emma Street, the present-day site of [[The Pacific Club]], in Honolulu.{{sfn|Cooke|1913|page=445}}{{sfn|Peterson|1984|page=209}} Likelike gave birth to their daughter, [[Kaʻiulani]], on October 16, 1875. Liliʻuokalani wrote that Kaʻiulani "was at once recognized as the hope of the Hawaiian people, as the only direct heir by birth to the throne."{{sfn|Liliuokalani|1898|page=55}} The long-awaited future heir to the throne was christened by Bishop [[Alfred Willis]] at the [[pro-cathedral]] of St. Andrew's on December 25, 1875. {{sfn|Peterson|1984|page=209}}{{sfn|The Pacific Commercial Advertiser|1899}} Princess [[Keʻelikōlani|Ruth Keʻelikōlani]] and the king and queen were her godparents.{{sfn|The Pacific Commercial Advertiser|1899}} Keʻelikōlani gave {{convert|10|acre|ha}} of her land in [[Waikiki|Waikīkī]] (outside Honolulu) to her goddaughter. The family sold their Honolulu property in 1878 and moved to the beachfront district of Waikīkī, where Cleghorn built a family estate which Likelike named [[ʻĀinahau]] (cool land).{{sfn|Waldron|1967|pages=101–105}}{{sfn|Cleghorn|Cleghorn|Argow|Allen|1979|page=1}}{{sfn|Peterson|1984|page=181}} Kaʻiulani was the couple's only child. Likelike had a miscarriage in June 1877 on a ship en route to San Francisco, California,{{sfn|Linnea|1999|pages=23–29}} and may have had another miscarriage after a fall from a horse before her final illness.{{sfn|Allen|1982|page=194}} Like her sister Lydia's marriage to John Owen Dominis, her marriage to Cleghorn was bittersweet. Victorian gentlemen expected to be the lord of their castle, their servants, their children, and their wives. Hawaiian nobility (''[[aliʻi]]''), however, were raised to rule others. Cleghorn could be blustery and demanding; on several occasions, the princess returned to the island of Hawaii and refused to return until they reconciled.{{sfn|Linnea|1999|pages=23–29}} Likelike was vivacious and well-liked, and her home was open to important people from all over the world. She had a reputation as a gracious hostess at her ʻĀinahau estate.{{sfn|Linnea|1999|pages=23–29}} Likelike was ''au courant'' with the latest fashions, ordering dresses and clothing from San Francisco and Paris.<ref name="Memoriam" /> She was known be imperious and quick-tempered, once striking a groom with a whip for not keeping the carriage properly polished.{{sfn|Linnea|1999|pages=23–29}} Likelike was baptized and confirmed in the [[Church of Hawaii|Anglican Church of Hawaii]] in 1882.<ref name="Memoriam">{{harvnb|The Hawaiian Gazette|1887}}; {{harvnb|Liliuokalani Education Society|1887|pages=82–85}}</ref>{{sfn|Kamehiro|2009|page=18}}
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