After, the funeral service for Kiingi Tuheitia was ... reigning Maori monarch at more than 40 years and the first Maori queen. During his reign, Kiingi Tuheitia advocated for his people ...

Her ascension to the throne — following a week of emotional funeral proceedings for ... inequality in New Zealand. But some ...

New Zealand’s Maori chiefs have crowned a new queen in a traditional ... and waiting along the banks of the Waikato River to glimpse the funeral procession. After her ascension, Queen Nga Wai ...

A Queens family has filed a lawsuit after a funeral home allegedly sent their loved one's body to the wrong country.

The Queen was today given a traditional Maori welcome as a white heron - a bird rarely seen in New Zealand. Te Kuini - pronounced the Queenie - is revered like the rare white heron by the Ngai ...

The hands of the body, the skin was falling off, so they had to wrap them in saran wrap,” the family’s lawyer, Phil Rizzuto, ...

Carmen Maldonado, 96, of Queens, died on May 18. She was supposed to be buried in Ecuador, but her body was sent to Guatemala ...

Her wish was to be buried in Ecuador next to her husband. Her family, who lives in Queens, was preparing for the funeral in Ecuador when they saw a video posted on TikTok that shocked them.

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A new Maori Queen was anointed Thursday ... in front of thousands of people gathered for the tangihanga (funeral and burial) of Kiingi Tuheitia,” a spokesperson for the ...

Pendry draped one of the queen's favorite Hermès silk scarves across Emma's saddle. In a recent interview on Gyles Brandreth's "Rosebud" podcast, Pendry reflected on his decision to have the ...

A bungling New York City funeral home already under fire for losing bodies and exploiting families has shipped the remains of a 96-year-old Queens grandmother to the wrong country, where she ...

the same bible used to anoint the first Maori king in 1858. Archbishop Don Tamihere then used sacred oils to "bestow prestige, sacredness, power and spiritual essence" upon the new queen, the ...