Victoria Kà «hià  Kinoiki Kekaulike II (1843âÂÂ1884) was a Princess of the Kingdom of Hawaiûi. Her name also sometimes spelled as Kinoike Kekaulike has been written as Mary Kinoiki Kekaulike in many sources. Her name Kekaulike translates as "the equality" in Hawaiian.
She was born on May 12, 1843, the youngest daughter of High Chief Kà «hià  Kalanianaûole of Hilo, and Princess Kinoiki Kekaulike from Kauaûi island. From her father she was cousin of the Kamehameha Dynasty being in the line of Keawe and she was a cousin of KalÃÂkaua through their common ancestor the High Chiefess Ululani of Hilo. Her mother was the stepdaughter of the Queen Regent Kaûahumanu and the daughter of Kaumualiûi, the last king of Kauaûi before he agreed to be a vassal to Kamehameha I in 1810. She was the youngest sister of Kapiûolani (later Queen Consort of KalÃÂkaua) and Princess Poûomaikelani. She took the name Kekaulike from her mother and great-great grandfather, King Kekaulike of Maui.
On February 25, 1861, she married High Chief David Kahalepouli Piûikoi and they had three sons. David Kahalepouli KawÃÂnanakoa was born February 19, 1868; Edward Abnel Keliûiahonui, born May 13, 1869; Jonah Kà «hià  Kalanianaûole, the youngest born on March 26, 1871. Her sons were adopted by her sisters Queen Kapiûolani and Princess Poûomaikelani after her death. Her sons were granted the title of Princes and style His Highness.
Her sister's husband became the king of Hawaii in 1874, so she was granted the title of Princess and style of Her Royal Highness, at 1883 at KalÃÂkaua's coronation. In the coronation ceremony, she had the honor of carrying KalÃÂkaua's royal feather cape, passed down from the days of Kamehameha I. She handed the royal mantle to Chief Justice Albert Francis Judd who placed it on the king's shoulders "as of the Ensign of Knowledge and Wisdom". She served from 1880 to 1884 as Governor of Hawaii Island, succeeding Princess Miriam Likelike, the sister-in-law of Queen Kapiûolani.
Princess Kekaulike started to suffer from what was termed a "heart disease", a year after KalÃÂkaua's coronation, and during her illness received a visit from Mother Marianne Cope. She was unable to recover and died at her Ululani residence, in Honolulu, on January 8, 1884.
Her funeral expenses added up to $1,931.36. She was interred in the KalÃÂkaua Crypt at the Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii. In her will, she gave her Beretania street residence Ululani, as the site of a proposed maternity home to help Hawaiian mothers, which later became the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children.