Editing Likelike (section)

== Death and state funeral ==
She had been in failing health for months, but her doctors only advised fresh air and a change of scenery. Likelike became weaker, and was advised to get "more nourishment".<ref name=nourishment>{{cite news |title=Death of Princess Likelike and Death of Her Royal Highess Princess Likelike |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047084/1887-02-03/ed-1/seq-2/ |access-date=May 3, 2020 |work=The Pacific Commercial Advertiser |date=February 3, 1887 |page=Image 2, cols 1–3}}</ref> In mid-January 1887, a large school of red [[Priacanthus meeki|''āweoweo'']] fish was seen off the coast of the island of Hawaii, an omen in native Hawaiian beliefs that foretold the death of a member of royalty.{{sfn|Williams|1997|page=115}}{{sfn|Zambucka|1998|pages=17–18}} At 5:15&nbsp;p.m. on February 2, 1887, Likelike died of unknown causes at age 36.<ref name=DailyHeralddeath>{{cite news |title=Death of Princess Likelike |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047239/1887-02-03/ed-1/seq-2/ |access-date=May 3, 2020 |date=February 3, 1887 |work=The Daily Herald |page=Image 2, col. 2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003084520/http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047239/1887-02-03/ed-1/seq-2 |archive-date=October 3, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Rumors circulated in Hawaii's Euro-American (''[[haole]]'') community that she had died of fear due to superstition or had been "prayed" to death by a powerful ''kahuna ʻanāʻanā'',{{#tag:ref|"Anā.ʻanā", in this context, refers to "black magic, evil sorcery by means of prayer and incantation".<ref>{{cite web |title=Hawaiian Dictionaries |url=http://wehewehe.org/gsdl2.85/cgi-bin/hdict?e=q-11000-00---off-0hdict--00-1----0-10-0---0---0direct-10-ED--4--textpukuielbert%2ctextmamaka-----0-1l--11-en-Zz-1---Zz-1-home-an%c4%81%ca%bban%c4%81--00-4-1-00-0--4----0-0-11-00-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&d=D1139 |website=wehewehe.org |access-date=May 3, 2020}}</ref>{{sfn|Zambucka|1998|pages=17–18}}|group=note}} or that she sacrificed her life to the goddess [[Pele (deity)|Pele]] to stop the 1887 eruption of [[Mauna Loa]].{{sfn|Kamehiro|2009|page=18}}{{sfn|Zambucka|1998|pages=17–18}}{{sfn|Cook|2018|pages=140–141}} According to her medical advisors however, they stated that "If Princess Likelike had taken sufficient nourishment there was no reason why she should not have recovered strength."<ref name=nourishment/>

According to Hawaiian legend, Likelike asked to see Kaʻiulani on her deathbed, and during her last moments, she prophesied that Kaʻiulani would leave Hawaii for a long time, never marry and never become queen.{{sfn|Webb|Webb|1998|page=47}}{{sfn|Zambucka|1998|page=18}} Kaʻiulani was educated in England from 1889 to 1897. She was declared heir apparent to the Hawaiian throne during the reign of her aunt, Queen Liliʻuokalani ({{reign|1891|1893}}). After the 1893 [[overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom]], Kaʻiulani traveled from London to Washington, D.C. and convinced U.S. President [[Grover Cleveland]] to attempt to restore the monarchy. Cleveland sent Commissioner [[James Henderson Blount]] to investigate the overthrow and try, unsuccessfully, to restore the queen. Kaʻiulani returned to Hawaii in 1897, and saw the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands by the United States on August 12, 1898. She died of [[rheumatism]] at ʻĀinahau on March 6, 1899.{{sfn|Peterson|1984|pages=180–184}}{{sfn|Kam|2017|pages=139–143}}

=== Funeral and burial ===
[[File:Likelike lying in state (PP-26-4-001) (cropped).jpg|thumb|Likelike lying in state at [[ʻIolani Palace]]|alt=deceased woman lying on a bed]]
Native Hawaiian protocol dictated that the body of an ''aliʻi'' could only be moved after midnight following death, and had to be interred on the [[sabbath]].{{sfn|Hodges|1918|pp=39–43}} In accordance with those beliefs, Likelike's body was moved sometime after midnight on February 3 and arrived at [[ʻIolani Palace]] around {{nobreak|2 a.m}}. She was placed on a [[catafalque]] in the throne room, where she lay in state until the following afternoon.<ref name=DailyHeralddeath /> The princess was covered by a satin [[shroud]], with ''[[kāhili]]'' wavers on both sides. A private viewing was provided for the royal family and government dignitaries before a public viewing, and government offices were closed. Likelike's funeral was weeks later, after her body was embalmed and details of the procession were finalized.<ref>{{cite news |title=Lying in State |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85047084/1887-02-04/ed-1/seq-3/ |access-date=May 3, 2020 |work=The Pacific Commercial Advertiser |date=February 4, 1887 |page=3, cols. 3–4}}</ref>

The funeral was held in the throne room on Sunday, February 27. The ''kāhili'' bearers had waved continuously since February 3, and "no hula had marred the solemnity".<ref name="THG18870301" /> Bishop Willis and Rev. Alexander Macintosh conducted daily services during the 24-day period. A large funeral procession followed, whose participants were mostly native Hawaiian.<ref name="THG18870301">{{cite news |title=The Dead Princess |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1887-03-01/ed-1/seq-1/ |access-date=May 3, 2020 |work=The Hawaiian Gazette |date=March 1, 1887 |page=1, cols. 5–6; 8, col. 4 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310122925/http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1887-03-01/ed-1/seq-1/ |archive-date=March 10, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> Likelike was buried in the [[Royal Mausoleum (Mauna ʻAla)|Royal Mausoleum at Mauna ʻAla]]. Her coffin was placed at the head of the main [[mausoleum]], in the center of a row of other coffins.{{sfn|Kam|2017|pages=121–126}}{{sfn|Parker|2008|page=39}} Photographers and a sketch artist recorded the event.<ref name="THG18870301" />

Likelike's funeral cost $30,337.54 in [[Hawaiian dollar]]s ({{Inflation|US|30,337.54 |1887|fmt=eq}}), prompting an investigation. The legislative finance committee studied past funeral expenses for Hawaiian royals, and concluded that the costs "are unprecedented in the history of state funerals in this country" and {{nowrap|"[t]here}} was utter recklessness, lawlessness and lack of proper authorization in the expenditures incurred".{{sfn|Kam|2017|pages=125–126}} About $22,000 of the total cost was for clothing the over 1,600 mourners. The committee recommended that the legislature approve a payment of $10,772.71, with the remainder to be paid by the trustees of the king's estate.{{sfn|Kam|2017|pages=125–126}} The previous state funeral, for Queen Dowager Emma in 1885, cost $5,965.98; four years later, the [[Death and two state funerals of Kalākaua|state funeral of Kalākaua]] had greater financial oversight and cost $21,442.{{sfn|Kam|2017|pages=121, 136}}

In a June 24, 1910, ceremony officiated by Likelike's sister, Queen Liliʻuokalani, the remains of the deceased members of the Kalākaua dynasty were transferred to the underground [[List of burials at the Royal Mausoleum (Mauna ʻAla)|Kalākaua Crypt]] after the main mausoleum was converted into a chapel.{{sfn|Parker|2008|pages=15, 39}}{{sfn|The Hawaiian Gazette|1910}} The niche bearing her remains, inscribed "H.R.H. Like Like | Born 1835–Died 1887", is next to the niches for her daughter Kaʻiulani and Cleghorn (who died shortly after the crypt was completed).{{sfn|Kam|2017|pages=139–143, 156–157, 194}}