Legacy
Bishop, who had rejected the offer of becoming the ruling monarch, was the last living heiress to the House of Kamehameha and died in 1884. Her dying wishes to her husband, Charles Reed Bishop, were to use the estate for the education of the native Hawaiian people. He founded Bishop Museum and Kamehameha Schools. He made preparations for Bishop Estate to continue after his death which came in 1915. Bishop Estate continues to be a large land holder in Hawaii.
Today, many Hawaiians, including many sovereignty activists, claim descent from Kamehameha I and other Hawaiian monarchs. If such claims are true, they still wouldn't be eligible to succeed to the Hawaiian throne as Bernice Pauahi Bishop was his last legitimate descendant and the Hawaiian constitution stipulated that only "heirs of body lawfully begotten" could succeed to the throne.
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