Kiingi Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII died days after the celebration of his 18th year as the mostly ceremonial monarch.
Māori King Kiingi Tuheitia, left, with visiting then-Prince Charles of the U.K. in Ngaruawahia, N.Z., on Nov. 8, 2015.NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga — New Zealand’s Māori King, Kiingi Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII, died Friday at age 69, days after the celebration of his 18th year on the throne.
said. The monarch has a largely ceremonial but still consequential role in New Zealand, where Māori make up close to 20% of the population.“The death of King Tuheitia is a moment of great sadness for followers of Kiingitanga, Maaoridom and the entire nation,” Papa wrote on social media. In recent months, Tuheitia has coordinated national unity talks for Māori in response to policies of Luxon’s center-right government. Critics accuse the government of being anti-Māori in its efforts to reverse policies favoring Indigenous people and language.King Charles III, New Zealand’s constitutional head of state, and his wife, Queen Camilla, were “profoundly saddened” by Tuheitia’s death.
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