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00:00New Zealand's indigenous Māori's anointing new Queen.
00:03Ngā Waihono i Te Po succeeds her father to Hetia at the age of 27.
00:08After being elected by a council of elders, she was ushered to the throne
00:12where she sat alongside her father's coffin prior to his burial.
00:16Māori's present welcome to the new Queen.
00:19We're extremely happy that Ngā Waihono i Te Po is our new Queen.
00:23She's the best person for the position and you'll see across
00:27Everybody's faces here, we all agree.
00:30Te Hetia Potatu Te Wero Wero died last Friday after undergoing heart surgery at the age of 69.
00:37The position of Māori monarch is ceremonial, holding no constitutional power,
00:42though it does have influence over many of New Zealand's iwi or tribes.
00:47And the late king was respected across broader New Zealand society.
00:51What he's done to unite this many people across Aotearoa who don't see eye to eye often,
00:57is probably a really good sign of the legacy that he's left here.
01:00Everything is done through manaakitanga, through respect, through aroha, through love.
01:10In a traditional ceremony, mourners brought to Hetia's remains upriver by a flotilla of war canoes
01:16for burial on Mount Tapiri, sacred to the Waikato iwi.
01:21His daughter becomes only the second woman to reign as monarch
01:24since the royal was established in 1858.