Siaosi Vuna Takitakimālohi was a Prince of Tonga, the only legitimate son and heir to King George Tupou I.
Background
Born around 1844, he was the only surviving son of Tongan King George Tupou I and Sālote Lupepauʻu, Tupou"s sole legitimate wife. He was named Siaosi or George after his father, who in turn had taken the name in honor of King George III of the United Kingdom while his mother was named Sālote or Charlotte after Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
Career
His only full-blooded brother Tu"ukitau had died at the age of four in 1842. His mother was the former wife of Laufilitonga, the last Tuʻi Tonga, and his maternal great grandmother was Nanasipauʻu, who held the high rank of Tuʻi Tonga Fefine. At the age of seventeen or eighteen, Prince Vuna died in January 1862, unmarried, leaving his father without an heir.
His death was greatly mourned by the people of Tonga.
At the prince"s funeral, the King allowed his subjects to restore the traditional rite of tukuofo, the offering of mats and food to the dead. The succession would remain vacant for thirteen years until the promulgation of Tonga"s first constitution in 1875, which legitimized Vuna"s half-brother Tēvita ʻUnga and named him Crown Prince.