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The Friendly Islands were never colonized and are the only Polynesian Nation to have maintained an independent hereditary Monarchy for all of its known history. Britain provided a strong influence and protection against colonial threat from Germany by naming it a protected state in 1900.

This is all because Tonga had a very smart king back then. and only focused on the island not on the influence of the British

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