Tupou IV

Full name
	ʻAhoʻeitu ʻUnuakiʻotonga Tukuʻaho

Tupou VI
Tupou VI
	King Tupou in 2019
King of Tonga
Reign	18 March 2012 – present
Coronation	4 July 2015[1]
Predecessor	George Tupou V
Heir apparent	Tupoutoʻa ʻUlukalala
Prime Ministers	See list Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō; ʻAkilisi Pōhiva; Semisi Sika (Acting); Pohiva Tuʻiʻonetoa; Siaosi Sovaleni;
13th Prime Minister of Tonga
Term	3 January 2000 – 11 February 2006
Predecessor	Baron Vaea
Successor	Feleti Sevele
Monarch	Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV
Born	12 July 1959; Royal Palace, Nukuʻalofa, Kingdom of Tonga
Spouse	Nanasipauʻu Vaea (m. 1982)
Issue	Princess Lātūfuipeka Tukuʻaho; Crown Prince Tupoutoʻa ʻUlukalala; Prince Ata
Full name
Full name
	ʻAhoʻeitu ʻUnuakiʻotonga Tukuʻaho
House	Tupou
Father	Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV
Mother	Halaevalu Mataʻaho ʻAhomeʻe
Alma mater	University of East Anglia; University of New South Wales; Bond University

Tupou VI (Tongan: ‘Aho‘eitu ʻUnuakiʻotonga Tukuʻaho; born 12 July 1959) is the current King of Tonga. He is the younger brother of King George Tupou V, who was the previous King. He became King on 18 March 2012.

Before he became King, he served as the country's Prime Minister from 3 January 2000 until 11 February 2006, when he resigned. He then served as the country's High Commissioner to Australia from 2008 until 2012, when he became King. During this time, he lived in Canberra before moving back to Tonga in 2012.

Family tree

Tuʻi Haʻatakalaua line

Tuʻi Tonga line

Tuʻi Kanokupolu line

Kalolaine Fusimatalili

George Tupou I

Fīnau Kaunanga

Fifita Vavʻau

Tēvita ʻUnga

Sālote Mafile‘o Pilolevu

Filiaipulotu

Fusipala Taukiʻonetuku

Fatafehi Toutaitokotaha

Lavinia Veiongo

George Tupou II

ʻAnaseini Takipō

Viliami Tungī Mailefihi

Sālote Tupou III

Vīlai Tupou (illegitimate son)

Tupou Seini

Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV

Halaevalu Mataʻaho
ʻAhomeʻe

Siaosi 'Alipate Tupou, Baron Vaea

Tuputupu Ma'afu-'o-Tukuialahi

George Tupou V

Tupou VI

Nanasipauʻu Tukuʻaho

Tupoutoʻa ʻUlukalala

Sinaitakala Fakafanua

Taufaʻahau Manumataongo

Reference:

Fox, James J.; Sather, Clifford (1996). Origins, Ancestry and Alliance: Explorations in Austronesian Ethnography. Canberra: Department of Anthropology, Australian National University. p. 252. ISBN 978-0-7315-2432-7. OCLC 245762652.
Kaeppler, Adrienne Lois; D.C. (2008). The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-19-284238-1. OCLC 236158882.
Völkel, Svenja (2010). Social Structure, Space and Possession in Tongan Culture and Language: An Ethnolinguistic Study. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing. p. 45. ISBN 978-90-272-0283-3.
Wood-Ellem, Elizabeth (1999). Queen Sālote of Tonga: The Story of an Era 1900-1965. Auckland, N.Z: Auckland University Press. p. front. ISBN 978-0-8248-2529-4. OCLC 262293605.

References

Tonga Broadcasting Archived 11 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine

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