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...Tongans made certain that Tupou IV could keep up his strength. From all over the kingdom's 150 islands, they flocked in outrigger canoes and launches to the week-long ceremonies at the capital of Nuku'alofa, bringing baskets of mutton, lobsters, crabs and other delicacies for His Royal Highness. More than 3,000 pigs were roasted whole for the coronation-day dinner. Thirty huge turtles taken from pens outside the King's palace went into the royal soup. The Duke and Duchess of Kent, and Governor John A. Burns of Hawaii representing President Johnson, were among...
...widely admired during Queen Elizabeth's coronation procession in London in 1953, when Salote rode proudly erect in the pouring rain without benefit of hat or umbrella; Tongans do not cover themselves in the presence of superiors. Salote died in 1965. Last week her son, Taufa' Ahau Tupou, 49, 6 ft. 3 in. and 300 Ibs., formally ascended the throne...
...reaches 16, each youth is entitled to eight free acres of land for his own use. Though most Tongans were converted to Christianity by Wesleyan and Catholic missionaries, they have managed to retain their own gods too. Their monarchy is indigenous and one of the world's oldest: Tupou IV traces his lineage back a thousand years, and his is the last surviving Polynesian kingdom in Oceania...
...Tupou IV is supposed to be descended from the mythical sky god Tangaroa, but Tongans no longer believe their King can magically heal scrofula or liver disease with a mere touch of his foot...
Died. Salote Tupou, 65, Queen of the Tonga (Friendly) Islands, the smiling, sturdy (6 ft. 3 in., 280 Ibs.) sovereign of some 200 tiny isles in the South Pacific, who acceded to her 1,000-year-old throne in 1918 and, through a booming banana and copra export trade, brought her 70,000 Polynesian subjects such 20th century luxuries as free education, medicare and a four-day work week; of pneumonia; in Auckland...