David Kalākaua Kawānanakoa

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David Kalākaua Kawānanakoa (March 10, 1904 – May 20, 1953), also known as Prince Koke, was a member of Hawaii’s royal Kawānanakoa family. He was the son of Prince David Kawānanakoa and Princess Abigail Campbell Kawānanakoa, and the brother of Abigail Kapiolani Kawānanakoa and Lydia Liliuokalani Kawānanakoa. He was born in Honolulu and baptized at St. Augustine’s Church on May 22, 1904.

Because of his royal status, he was educated abroad, attending Oahu College, Fay School in Massachusetts, Taft School in Connecticut, and Belmont Military Academy in California. He served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II.

Kawānanakoa married three times. He first married Eileen Hutchins in 1929; they divorced in 1931. He then married Gertrude Leilani Scott in 1941. He later lived in a common-law marriage with Arvilla Kinslea. Earlier, he had received a suspended sentence for killing a woman in a reckless driving incident. On October 24, 1937, Kinslea was found dead after a wild party, and Kawānanakoa confessed to her murder and was sentenced to several years in prison. He married Cecelia Kuliaikanuʻuwaiʻaleʻale Parker-Waipa on October 27, 1949.

He died of a heart attack in Honolulu on May 20, 1953, at age 49 and was buried in the Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii in Nuʻuanu Valley. He died without children, and the Kawānanakoa line continues through his sisters’ descendants.