Watch: New Māori queen crowned as her father King Tuheitia is buried

Ngā Wai hono i te pō has been crowned the eighth Māori monarch 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 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 King Tuheitia, who died last Friday at the age of 69.

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