New Zealand: Māori queen crowned as her father is buried

Ngā Wai hono i te pō is crowned the new Māori queen after the death of her father, King Tuheitia.

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Twenty-seven-year-old Ngā Wai hono i te pō was chosen as kuini - the Māori word for queen - by a council of New Zealand's indigenous Māori chiefs during an elaborate ceremony in the country's North Island.

She is only the second Māori queen, the first being her grandmother, Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu.

Ngā Wai hono i te pō is the youngest child of Kiingi Tuheitia, who died last Friday at the age of 69.

Sitting on a carved wooden throne, the new queen was announced at a gathering at Tūrangawaewae Marae, which is the seat of the Kiingitanga or Māori king movement.

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