Early Life
She was legally adopted by her grandmother, Princess Abigail Campbell Kawānanakoa, in the Hawaiian tradition of hānai, at the age of 6. By the adoption, she assumed the surname of Kawānanakoa rather than Ellerbrock, the surname of her father. Her aunt Kapiʻolani Kawānanakoa married Andy Lambert and although she divorced him, the only way her offspring Edward (Dudie), Poomaikelani and Kapiolani received the Kawānanakoa name was by their mother going back to her maiden name and her children assumed the maiden name as well. She was educated at Punahou School, in Honolulu, Shanghai American School, in Shanghai, graduated from Notre Dame High School in Belmont, California, Dominican College, in San Rafael, California and the University of Hawaii, in Honolulu, Oahu.
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