The Queen and New Zealand: Residences, Governor-General, etc...

[Kronprinz]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...-to-new-zealand-in-2018-governor-general-says

Not related to the headline, just posting these from the GG of New Zealand.

She said she regularly expresses her confidential views of what’s happening in New Zealand to the Queen, such as the nation’s response to the pandemic. She said the communication “is quite touchingly old-fashioned, by letter.”

Many people in New Zealand believe the country should become an independent republic but Reddy said she believed the Queen should remain the head of state because the arrangement works and has strong historical links.

She said New Zealand has a special connection to the monarchy because its founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi, was signed by Māori and the representative of Queen Victoria.

Asked about a future scenario in which a monarch might turn out to be dictatorial or autocratic, Reddy said the same scenario with an elected president would probably be worse.

“We’ve seen how that doesn’t work in other countries in the world,” she said. “But actually, because the monarch is much more of a theoretical construct, a figurehead rather than an actual ruler, I think it gives us a measure of safety, constitutional safety.”

 

[eya]

"Yesterday, The Queen spoke to Dame Cindy Kiro, who will this week be sworn in as the new Governor General of New Zealand.
The Queen invested Dame Cindy with the traditional Insignia of the Governor General."

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