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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Sian Baldwin

Ngā Wai hono i te pō: Who is New Zealand's new 27-year-old Maori queen?

New Zealand’s new Māori queen has been crowned in a traditional ceremony in which her father, King Tūheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero VII, was also 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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