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New Zealand’s indigenous Maori people have appointed a new queen. At the same time, a fleet of war canoes was arranged to bring her father, the late monarch Tuheitia, to a sacred mountain.
27-year-old Nga Wai hono i te po Paki was met with cheers when she sat down on a high-backed throne in the North Island.
The Maori monarch lacks formal power but plays a significant cultural, and sometimes political, role as a symbol of Maori identity.