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The Māori King movement, called the Kīngitanga [a] in Māori, is a Māori movement that arose among some of the Māori iwi (tribes) of New Zealand in the central North Island in the 1850s, to establish a role similar in status to that of the monarchy of the United Kingdom as a way of halting the alienation of Māori land. [3]
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 ...
Some of the royal tours undertaken by more junior members of the royal family include the 1990 visit of Princess Anne to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings on Anzac Day, [108] and when Prince William represented the Queen of New Zealand at VE and VJ Day commemorations in 2005, as part of an 11-day tour, [109] and opened ...
Turongo House, the official royal residence, at Tūrangawaewae 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 ...
The kahui ariki, the Māori royal family, is usually defined as the descendants of King Tāwhiao. [1] Tūheitia first appointed his Tekau-mā-rua, the privy council of the Māori monarch, in 2014 from important Māori leaders, both male and female, from across the country.
Te Atairangikaahu meeting President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed of India in New Delhi, 1975. Korokī died on 18 May 1966. Leaders from the Kīngitanga subsequently elected Princess Piki to succeed her father during the six-day tangihanga (funeral rites); after an initial reluctance to accept the title, she formally became queen on 23 May, the day Korokī was buried.
Pōtatau Te Wherowhero (died 25 June 1860) was a Māori rangatira who reigned as the inaugural Māori King from 1858 until his death. A powerful nobleman and a leader of the Waikato iwi of the Tainui confederation, he was the founder of the Te Wherowhero royal dynasty.
Pokaia Tāwhiao (1844–1927). Maori Prince, had descendants. Haunui Tāwhiao (1882–1945). Maori Prince, had descendants. His third wife was Aotea Te Paratene, also a cousin. They had only one daughter: Te Aouru Puahaere Te Popoke Tāwhiao (1856–1920). Maori Princess, had descendants. He had a lover, Hinepau Tamamotu, daughter of a Maori ...