This wonderful cocktail started out with a different name - the Princess Kaiulani - when it originated at the luxurious Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Waikiki Beach, Hawaii in the 1920s. Due to its popularity, it was renamed the Royal Hawaiian when it was crowned the hotel's signature drink around 1950. This version that uses Empress 1908 Gin for a beautiful colour effect is a more modern spin on the classic, that typically sees uncoloured gin mixed throughout.