Chapter TwoLydia could only stare at her sister in astonishment.
Then, as her father came into the room, she remembered that Honolulu was the Capital of Hawaii – a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean.
She thought that Heloise must have it wrong for it seemed impossible that the Earl of all people should want to go to such a strange faraway part of the world.
But her father was able to explain the situation to them.
Two years previously King Kalakaua, he told them, had ascended the throne of Hawaii and, because he had a flourish and style that made him very different from all the previous Kings, he was determined to fashion his Kingship on the traditions of Western Monarchy.
He immediately began building himself a grand Palace and also planned a trip round the world that would make h
