After almost five years of engagement and a postponement due to the coronavirus pandemic, former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern married longtime partner Clarke Gayford in a private ceremony Saturday. Details of the event were closely held by the pair, but the ceremony is reported to have been staged at a luxury vineyard in the scenic Hawke's Bay region, 325 kilometres (200 miles) from New Zealand's capital, Wellington.
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00:00 After almost five years of engagement and a postponement due to the coronavirus pandemic,
00:08 former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern married longtime partner Clark Keford
00:13 in a private ceremony Saturday.
00:15 Details of the event were closely held by the pair, but the ceremony is reported to
00:19 have been staged at a luxury vineyard in the scenic Hawke's Bay region, 325 kilometres
00:25 from New Zealand's capital, Wellington.
00:27 It is believed that only family, close friends and a few of the 43-year-old Ardern's former
00:32 lawmaker colleagues were invited, including Ardern's successor and former Prime Minister
00:37 Chris Hipkins.
00:38 Earlier, police met with a small group of protesters who had plastered a wall with dozens
00:42 of anti-vaccination protests outside the venue.
00:45 One protester was also seen holding a sign that read, "Lest we forget, jab mandates"
00:49 on the outskirts of the property.
00:51 Ardern and Keford, 47, reportedly began dating in 2014 and were engaged five years later,
00:57 but due to Ardern's government's COVID-19 restrictions that reduced gatherings to 100
01:01 people, the wedding planned for the Southern Hemisphere summer of 2022 was postponed.
01:05 "Such is life," Ardern said at the time of their decision to call off the wedding.
01:10 "I am no different to, dare I say, thousands of other New Zealanders."
01:14 Just 37 when she became leader in 2017, Ardern quickly became a global icon of the left.
01:20 She exemplified a new style of leadership and was praised around the world for her handling
01:24 of the nation's worst-ever mass shooting and the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic.
01:29 In 2018, Ardern became just the second elected world leader to give birth while holding office.
01:34 Later that year, she brought her infant daughter to the floor of the UN General Assembly in
01:38 New York.
01:39 New Zealand, under Ardern's government, had some of the strictest coronavirus mandates
01:43 in the world, which prompted several rallies during a final year as Prime Minister.
01:47 It also led to a level of vitriol from some that hadn't been experienced by previous
01:51 New Zealand leaders.
01:52 Ardern shocked New Zealanders in January 2023 when she said she was stepping down after
01:57 five and a half years as Prime Minister because she no longer had enough in the tank to do
02:01 the job justice in an election year.
02:04 Since then, Ardern announced she would temporarily join Harvard University after being appointed
02:09 to dual fellowships at the Harvard Kennedy School.
02:12 She has also taken up an unpaid role combating online extremism.
02:16 In June, Ardern received one of New Zealand's highest honours for her service leading the
02:20 country through a mass shooting and pandemic.
02:22 She was made a Dame Grant Companion, meaning people will now call her Dame Jacinda Ardern.
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