Tonga has elected a new leader by secret ballot in parliament, two weeks after the previous prime minister abruptly resigned, following a power struggle with the Pacific nation’s royal family.

Because two of the accident victims were members of the Tongan royal family, news of that crash spread like wildfire across the globe. Calling all photographers! The 2025 Six Fifty Peninsula Photo ...

brown people of Tonga, still strong and vigorous, were enthusiastically celebrating a royal birthday: Salote, the strapping (6 ft. 2 in.) Queen of the Tongans and a Dame Commander of the British ...

Sovaleni’s tenure was rocked by occasional tensions between Tonga’s monarchy and elected lawmakers in the fledgling democracy after reforms that transferred powers from the royal family and ...

The Tonga archipelago lies in the South Pacific approximately ... thanks to the continuous transmission and the patronage of the royal family, it underwent a revival in the twentieth century.