the peacock gown is a copy that his wife wore to the golden jubilee in london. victoria became queen when -- was 7 months old. he sent his wife, his sister and about five other people to england to represent the hawaiian kingdom in london at the events there. queen victoria asked the women in attendance to wear something that would remind the rest of their guests of their home countries. ip clani chose feathers. traditionally in hawaii the royalty used feathers. these are two of four gowns we have recreated. another gown is a black gown with yellow feather lei, also a for the london trip and black ribbon gown that liliuokalani had made for the trip to london. liliuokalani is in that gown in her portrait which is in the blue room. this is the imprisonment room. liliuokalani became queen in 1891 after her brother's death. two years later, when she attempted to introduce a new constitution which would have returned voting rights and taken away if the noncitizen residents who had been allowed to vote, she was illegally overthrown by a group of 13 local residents of