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Princess Abigail One chair from the palace's Blue Room survived a tsunami in 1946, which swept it out of a Maui home and deposited it on a beach, where the owners recovered it and eventually donated it to the palace in 1976.
In This Hawaiian Scavenger Hunt, A Princess Seeks Palace Treasures Julia Flynn Siler 2011
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Iolani Palace Princess Abigail, shown here at the 125th anniversary of the palace's construction, has helped lead the charge to recover missing items from her family's former residence.
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While most of the items in this room are original, about half of the palace's contents remain at large.
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But much of the 19th-century palace's custom-made furniture, oil paintings and other treasures disappeared after January 1893, when a small band of businessmen overthrew the monarchy.
In This Hawaiian Scavenger Hunt, A Princess Seeks Palace Treasures Julia Flynn Siler 2011
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After seeing a TV program about Iolani Palace, they realized the plate had originally come from the palace's French Pillivuyt china service.
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Despite these successes, about half of the palace's contents remain at large.
In This Hawaiian Scavenger Hunt, A Princess Seeks Palace Treasures Julia Flynn Siler 2011
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But many of the palace's treasures disappeared after the monarchy fell in 1893.
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Despite that the premiership will now go to a party outside the palace's political orbit, activists have complained that the constitutional changes don't go far enough—most of the final domestic political power remains with the king, as well as questions of religion and foreign policy.
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After seeing a television program about Iolani Palace, they realized the plate, with its royal insignia, had come from the palace's French Pillivuyt china service.
In This Hawaiian Scavenger Hunt, A Princess Seeks Palace Treasures Julia Flynn Siler 2011
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Shown, the palace's Blue Room in an archival photo.
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