Use For Foreign Rulers
- Since on 1 March 1900 the Samoan archipelago (a Polynesian nation, royal style 'O le Tupu o Samoa; was since 7 November 1889 under Tripartite German-British-U.S. protectorate, represented by the three Consuls) is annexed by Germany alone (except for the part that became American Samoa; hence long known as Western Samoa), the German Kaiser (Hohenzollern emperor) is styled there Tupu Sili o Samoa "Paramount King of Samoa" until the allied take-over during World War I.
- the British Monarch, styled King or Queen, is still recognised as Paramount Chief of Fiji (even after it became a republic within the Commonwealth, of which H.M. also is the sole Head).
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