User:KAVEBEAR/Sammy Amalu

Samuel Apolo Kapiikauinamokuonalani Crowningburg Amalu, commonly known as Sammy Amalu (1917–February 23, 1986) was a self-proclaim royal and longtime columnist at The Honolulu Advertiser.

He was born in the Koolau District of Kauai. He was the son of Charles and Ethel P. Amalu, and the grandson of Kilauea Lighthouse keeper Samuel Apolo Amalu and his wife Miriam Peleuli Crowningsburg. 

A self-proclaimed royal, who titled himself High Chief Kapiikauinamoku, Prince of Keawe and Duke of Konigsberg, he attempted to buy up several Waikiki hotels with phony checks in the 1940s and ended up in jail.

Under the alias Kapiikauinamoku, he wrote "The Story of Hawaiian Royalty" and "The Story of Maui Royalty," in a series of columns written for the The Honolulu Advertiser, which accounts much of the genealogy of Hawaii's aliʻi families including his ancestress Miriam Auhea Kekāuluohi Crowningburg, who was a cousin of King Lunalilo who reigned from 1873 to 1874. As descendants of Kalaimamahu, the Crowningburg family were the closest relatives of the childless Lunalilo and his mother Kekāuluohi.