Liliuokalani was the last and certainly the most iconic Monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii. She was crowed to the thrown in 1877 beating out here rival relatives in a special royal election among the Hawaiian nobles as the late king had left no heirs to the thrown. She was also the head of the church of Hawaii an Anglican institution that was formal established in 1862 , yet she was tolerant to the many East Asian immigrant who practiced Buddhism, Shintoism,and  Confucianism. She lead her kingdom until it's bitter end when the United States government over through the monarchy and established the islands of the Former Kingdom of Hawaii as the United States Hawaiian Territories.