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Whatumoana Paki QSO (1 February 1926 – 22 September 2011) was a New Zealand Māori royal elder. Paki was the husband of the Māori Queen, Te Atairangikaahu , who reigned from 1966 to 2006. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He and Te Atairangikaahu were the parents of the seventh Māori monarch , Tūheitia Paki .
Tūheitia was the son of Whatumoana Paki (1926–2011) and Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu (1931–2006), who married in 1952. He was educated at Rakaumanga School in Huntly , Southwell School in Hamilton and St. Stephen's College (Te Kura o Tipene) in Bombay , south of Auckland , New Zealand.
Ngā Wai Hono i te Pō was born into the Kīngitanga royal family during the reign of her paternal grandmother Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu. She is the youngest child of Kīngi Tūheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero VII and Makau Ariki Atawhai Paki. Her early life was steeped in the cultural and spiritual practices of the Māori people, with a ...
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Tūheitia also fell out with his first-born son Whatumoana Paki, after the latter married Rangimarie Tahana in June 2022. The Office of the Kīngitanga publicly denounced their wedding and stripped Whatumoana of his royal title. [13] [14]
The death of Kiingi Tūheitia is a moment of great sadness for followers of Te Kiingitanga, Maaoridom and the entire nation. He kura kua ngaro ki tua o Rangi-whakamoe-ariki. Moe mai raa. (A chief who has passed to the great beyond. Rest in love.)
After the two brothers were killed, Tapuae's son Te Putu built Taupiri pā on the summit of a spur of Taupiri mountain, in the 1600s. When Te Putu was an old man in the 1700s, he was treacherously killed by Ngātokowaru of Ngāti Raukawa at Te Mata-o-tutonga, his home outside the pā by the banks of the Waikato River.
Kiritokia e-te Tomairangi Paki (1953 – 3 April 2017) was a prominent Māori kuia, and the daughter of Queen Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu. She was the elder sister of King Tūheitia . Paki was a prominent exponent of kapa haka , and tutored the Taniwharau kapa haka to national victory in 1981. [ 1 ]