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Evening Standard
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Miriam Burrell

New Māori queen, 27, crowned in New Zealand as her father is buried

New Zealand’s new Māori queen has been crowned in a traditional ceremony which also saw her father King Tūheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero VII laid to rest.

Ngā Wai hono i te pō, 27, the youngest child of the late monarch, became the second Māori kuini, or queen, in a tradition dating back to 1858.

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