Viliami ʻUnakiʻotonga Lalaka moe ʻEiki Tukuʻaho, Prince Ata (born 27 April 1988) is a member of the Tongan royal family and the younger son of Tupou VI, King of Tonga.
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Biography
Ata is the son of Tupou VI, King of Tonga, and Queen Nanasipauʻu Tukuʻaho. He has two older siblings, Princess Lātūfuipeka Tukuʻaho and Crown Prince Tupoutoʻa ʻUlukalala. He belongs to the line of succession to the Tongan throne and is not married. He was appointed to the title of Ata in September 2006.
He was educated at Canberra Grammar School in Australia.
In 2014, King Tupou VI sent Prime Minister Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō and a group of soldiers to a church in Haveluloto to prevent him from being baptized as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The following year, he was baptised in the Church in a ceremony in Hawaii without his father's knowledge.
Title, styles and honours
Title
25 September 2006 – present: His Royal Highness Prince Ata of Tonga
Honours
Tonga: Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Royal Order of Pouono
Tonga: Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Queen Salote Tupou III
Tonga: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown of Tonga
Tonga: Recipient of the King Tupou VI Coronation Medal
Tonga: Recipient of the King George Tupou V Coronation Medal