Nanasipauʻu Tukuʻaho

IssuePrincess Latufuipeka
Tupoutoʻa ʻUlukalala
Prince Ata

Names
Nanasipauʻu Vaea

FatherBaron VaeaMotherBaroness Tuputupu Vaea

Tongan royal family
The King The Queen The Crown Prince The Crown Princess Prince Taufaʻahau Manumataongo Princess Halaevalu Mataʻaho Princess Nanasipauʻu Eliana Princess Salote Mafile’o Pilolevu Princess Lātūfuipeka Prince Viliami, The 8th Prince Ata The Princess Royal, The Lady Tuita Siosaʻia, The 9th Lord Tuita Sālote Lupepau'u Tuita 'Epeli Taione Phaedra Anaseini Titilupe Fanetupouvava'u Tuita Siaosi Kiu Tau-ki-Vailahi Kaho Simon Tu'ivakano Michaela Tu'ivakano Fatafehi Tu'ivakano Frederica Lupe'Uluiva Tuita Johnny Filipe Latu'alaifotu'aika Fahina Lupeolo Halaevalu Tuita The Hon. Dowager Lady Ma’atu The Prince Tungi Fatafehi Sione Ikamafana ‘Etani Ha’amea Tupoulahi Salote Maumautaimi Tuku'aho
Extended family
Princess Fifita Holeva Tuʻihaʻangana Princess Sinaitakala Fakafanua Fatafehi, The 8th Lord Fakafanua Fakaola Fakafānua
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Nanasipauʻu Tukuʻaho, (née Nanasipauʻu Vaea; born 8 March 1954) is Queen of Tonga as the wife of King Tupou VI.

Early life

Nanasipauʻu Vaea is the daughter of the late Baron Vaea, a former Prime Minister of Tonga from 1991 to 2000, and the late Baroness Tuputupu Vaea.^[2] She has six siblings:

• Dowager Lady Luseane Luani, born Luseane Vaea (widow of Sione Laumanuʻuli Luani).
• ʻAlipate Tuʻivanuavou, Lord Vaea, who married the sister of Lord Fakafānua, Siatukimoana Fakafānua Vaea, The Honourable Lady Vaea. She is the paternal aunt of Crown Princess Sinaitakala.
• Lady ʻAmelia Luoluafetuʻu, born ʻAmelia Luoluafetuʻu Vaea (former-wife of The Noble Lasike).
• Dame Cassandra Vaea, (formerly Cassandra Tuku'aho) former-wife of Prince Tuipelehake (formerly Viliami Sione Ngu Takeivulai Tuku'aho) son of Tu'ipelehake (Mailefihi) and his former wife Mele Vikatolia Faletau.
• Moimoikimofuta Kaifahina Vaea.
• Ratu Edward Palalaika 'a Tungi Vaea.^[2]

Marriage and family

She was married at the Chapel Royal, at the Royal Palace, in Nukuʻalofa on 11 December 1982 to Tupou VI and the couple have three children^[3] and four grandchildren.^[4][5][6][7]

Their eldest child, Princess Lātūfuipeka Tukuʻaho (Angelika Lātūfuipeka Halaevalu Mataʻaho Napua-o-kalani Tukuʻaho), born on November 17, 1983, has been the High Commissioner to Australia since August 22, 2012.^[8]

Their second child, Crown Prince Tupoutoʻa ʻUlukalala (Siaosi Manumataongo ʻAlaivahamamaʻo ʻAhoʻeitu Konstantin Tukuʻaho), born on September 17, 1985, married his second cousin, Sinaitakala Fakafanua, on July 12, 2012.^[9] They have four children: Prince Taufaʻahau Manumataongo (born May 10, 2013),^[10] Princess Halaevalu Mataʻaho (born July 12, 2015),^[11] Princess Nanasipauʻu (born March 20, 2018),^[12] and Princess Salote Mafile’o Pilolevu (born February 25, 2021).^[13]

Their third child is Prince Ata (Viliami ʻUnuaki-ʻo-Tonga Mumui Lalaka-Mo-e-ʻEiki Tukuʻaho), born on April 27, 1988.^[14]

Notable published works

• Kaeppler, A.L.; Taumoefolau, M.; Tukuʻaho, N., & Wood-Ellem, E. (2004): Songs and poems of Queen Salote. ISBN 978-982-213-008-9

Honours

Orders

•  Tonga:
  • Member of the King George Tupou V Royal Family Order (1 August 2011)^{[citation needed]}
  • Dame Grand Cross of the Order of Salote Tupou III (30 June 2015)^[15]
  • Dame Grand Cross, Special Class of the Most Devoted Order of the Royal Household

Medals

•  Tonga:
  • Recipient of the King Taufa’ahau Tupou IV Coronation Silver Jubilee Medal (4 July 1992)^{[citation needed]}
  • Recipient of the King George Tupou V Coronation Medal (1 August 2008)^{[citation needed]}
  • Recipient of the King George Tupou VI Coronation Medal (4 July 2015)^{[citation needed]}

Ancestry

Family tree

v t e Tupou family tree
Tuʻi Haʻatakalaua line Tuʻi Tonga line Tuʻi Kanokupolu line Kalolaine Fusimatalili George Tupou I Fīnau Kaunanga Fifita Vavʻau Tēvita ʻUnga Sālote Mafile‘o Pilolevu Filiaipulotu Fusipala Taukiʻonetuku Fatafehi Toutaitokotaha Lavinia Veiongo George Tupou II ʻAnaseini Takipō Viliami Tungī Mailefihi Sālote Tupou III Vīlai Tupou (illegitimate son) Tupou Seini Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV Halaevalu Mataʻaho ʻAhomeʻe Siaosi 'Alipate Tupou, Baron Vaea Tuputupu Ma'afu-'o-Tukuialahi George Tupou V Tupou VI Nanasipauʻu Tukuʻaho Tupoutoʻa ʻUlukalala Sinaitakala Fakafanua Taufaʻahau Manumataongo
Reference: Fox, James J.; Sather, Clifford (1996). Origins, Ancestry and Alliance: Explorations in Austronesian Ethnography. Canberra: Department of Anthropology, Australian National University. p. 252. ISBN 978-0-7315-2432-7. OCLC 245762652. Kaeppler, Adrienne Lois; D.C. (2008). The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-19-284238-1. OCLC 236158882. Völkel, Svenja (2010). Social Structure, Space and Possession in Tongan Culture and Language: An Ethnolinguistic Study. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing. p. 45. ISBN 978-90-272-0283-3. Wood-Ellem, Elizabeth (1999). Queen Sālote of Tonga: The Story of an Era 1900-1965. Auckland, N.Z: Auckland University Press. p. front. ISBN 978-0-8248-2529-4. OCLC 262293605.

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