Hawaii's "last princess" was ruled unable to manage her $215 million trust, married her partner during the court fight, and the settlement gave her wife $40 million

Abigail Kawānanakoa was born in 1926. She was a granddaughter of Prince David Kawānanakoa, whom King Kalākaua made a prince in 1883, and a great-granddaughter of James Campbell, an Irish-born sugar planter who was one of Hawaii's largest landowners. Her inheritance from the Campbell estate was put in a trust. After a stroke in 2017, her lawyer of many years, Jim Wright, became trustee. On 1 October 2017 she married Veronica Gail Worth, her partner of about 20 years. Wright alleged that Worth abused her; both women's lawyers denied it. In September 2018 Judge Robert Browning ruled she lacked capacity to manage the $215 million trust, removed Wright and appointed First Hawaiian Bank. In November 2018 her lawyers filed an amended trust giving Worth $40 million. Her foundation objected to heirlooms going to Worth, among them a key to King Kalākaua's crypt. In 2020 a judge found her impaired. She died at 96 on 11 December 2022. In January 2024 the parties settled: Worth received $40 million and personal effects, about a dozen other claimants, including a hānai (customarily adopted) son and longtime employees, received tens of millions, and the foundation was expected to receive at least $100 million for Native Hawaiian causes.