Order of Queen Sālote Tupou III dark-blue with the legend in gold capital letters, all suspended from a gold Tongan crown. The "necklet ribbon" is sky-blue-ultramarine and approx. 41mm . The "breast badge" is, as the Commander’s class, in silver and enamel (above, except smaller and the suspended crown is silver). The "breast ribbon" is approximately 38 mm (as above). Order of Queen Sālote Tupou III The "Most Illustrious" Order of Queen Salote Tupou III is a knighthood order of the Kingdom of Tonga. The Order was established on 28 June 2008 by His Late Majesty King George Tupou V to commemorate the grand figure of
Falisi Tupou the Tongatapu 9 seat in the Legislative Assembly. The seat had been won in the November 2010 general election by DPFI candidate Kaveinga Faʻanunu, who had died of cancer seven months later. Tupou retained the seat for the party, winning 32.8% of the vote and seeing off the other five candidates with a comfortable margin. Falisi Tupou Falisi Tupou is a Tongan journalist and politician. He is a senior editor at "Keleʻa", the newspaper of the pro-democracy movement, owned by ʻAkilisi Pohiva. In April 2007, he was arrested and charged with sedition over an editorial in which he was accused