Victoria was educated at Chiefs' Children's School (later renamed Royal School) along with all her cousins and brothers. Along with her other classmates, she was chosen by Kamehameha III to be eligible for the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii. She was expected from birth to one day succeed to the position of "Kuhina Nui" if not the office of monarch, so she was educated by the Cookes with full attention to what political roles she might play in the near future. In the school, the students were permitted to visit with relatives from time to time. When the students fell ill, their "kahu" and families went to the school and stayed for a while to attend to them. Victoria's "kahu", John Papa ʻĪʻī, was eventually appointed "kahu" for all of the students at the Chief's Children's School and visited in that capacity, though his political services were in such demand by the court that he was often absent.