sentences:  On Hawaiian Sovereignty Restoration Day ("Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea") in 1847, King Kamehameha III and Queen Kalama hosted a grand luau at the palace.The celebration commemorated the fourth anniversary of the restoration of Hawaiian independence and sovereignty by British Rear-Admiral Richard Darton Thomas, following a five-month British occupation of the kingdom during the Paulet Affair of 1843.The luau was attended by an estimated ten thousand guests.