page_title: James Washington Lonoikauoalii McGuire
section_title: Royal service
hierarchical_section_title: James Washington Lonoikauoalii McGuire / Royal service
caption_attribution_description: English: Queen Kapiolani of Hawaii wearing her peacock gown at the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria.
context_page_description: James Washington Lonoikauoalii McGuire was a royal courtier of the Hawaiian Kingdom. He served as a personal attendant and dressmaker to Queen Kapiʻolani, wife of King Kalākaua. McGuire fashioned the peacock feathered dress worn by Queen Kapiolani on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887. He kept a diary of his trip to the jubilee celebrations with the queen and published his account in 1938.
context_section_description: In April 1887, King Kalākaua sent a delegation to attend the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in London. It included Queen Kapiʻolani, Princess Liliʻuokalani and Liliʻuokalani's husband John Owen Dominis, as well as Court Chamberlain Colonel Curtis P. Iʻaukea acting as official envoy of the king and Colonel James Harbottle Boyd acting as aide-de-camp to the Queen.
  McGuire was one of the servants to accompany the royal party as a personal attendant and dressmaker for Queen Kapiʻolani, and held the honorary rank of Special Equerry to the Queen. He fashioned the peacock feathered dress worn by Queen Kapiʻolani on the occasion of the Jubilee, personally collecting the feathers used in the design.
  The group landed in San Francisco and traveled across the United States before boarding a ship for the United Kingdom. In London, Kapiʻolani and Liliʻuokalani were granted an audience with Queen Victoria, attending the special Jubilee service at Westminster Abbey  seated with other foreign royal guests and with members of the Royal Household.
  In 1938, fifty-one years later, McGuire wrote his moʻolelo (story) of the Hawaiian delegation's journey to the Golden Jubilee from the diary he kept during his travel with the royal party. Written in the Hawaiian language, it was entitled He Moolelo Pokole o ka Huakai hele a ka Moiwahine Kapiolani i Enelani i ka Makahiki 1887 i ka lubile o ka Moiwahine Vitoria o Beretania Nui which translate as A Short Description of Queen Kapiolani's Voyage to England to Attend the Jubilee Celebration of Queen Victoria of England in the Year 1887.
  In 1889, McGuire also accompanied Kapiʻolani's two nephews Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole and Prince David Kawānanakoa  on their journey abroad to the United States and Europe.
caption: Queen Kapiʻolani wearing her peacock feathered gown at the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria, 1887
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