Ata Te Kanawa: Maori Queen's nod to culture at meeting with royals

Maori Queen Te Arikini Kuini Nga Wai Hono I Te Po is in London visiting Buckingham Palace, where she met with King Charles and Prince William. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I must Heather do for Cela eighteen past five. Now,

(00:03):
the talk of our office in the last few days
is the glow up that the Maori Queen has had.
She's over in London. She's met with Prince Charles, King
Charles rather met with Prince William, and she has looked awesome.
Atakanawa is a Maori fashion expert and the co founder
of the co founder of Metal Murda, the Indigenous Maori
fashion Apparel Board, and is with us Ayata.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Kyoda Kyoda.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Have you noticed the glow up?

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah? And it's interesting because I noticed things, but it
didn't kind of verbalize it and it wasn't all sam
rang that I thought. Yeah, I noticed things like I
was surprised that she wasn't that much shorter than Prince
William but taller than from King Charles. Oh yeah, yeah,

(00:50):
that was the first thing.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Now, Now, look, I mean what you'd say about her,
because she has definitely like in terms of what she's wearing,
it is so much better than her grandmother. It is
so much better than her dad. It is it is
even you could say if you go back four years
last time she's in London, it's even better than that,
So it feels like it's a really concerted effort in
social media age to look really awesome for people. Does

(01:14):
that I mean, is that going to get her more
followers because she looks awesome?

Speaker 2 (01:20):
I think the fact that she's she's younger in this
throll means that she's there there will be an expectation
that she looks younger.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
You know, it's more on her grandmation.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, her grandmother was was well dressed, but she was
like middle aged woman. Yeah, and her father was a
dad bloke, kind of ordinary guy, so no one had expectations.
But she she has come into her own. I thought
she held her own really well. She looked as though

(02:00):
she held her own and I love the fact that
she's adopted a very classic kind of safe look. But also,
you know, she's wearing a mucal co why you know,
as far as the cessories go, they don't get much
bigger than that. And she's also got tarmoco on her

(02:23):
wrists as well.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, you don't need to any you don't need to
make your look look indigenous when you've already got a
mcal car.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Why do you see something for us?

Speaker 1 (02:32):
We can't decide in the handbag is just a little
clutch or a kitty. What's going on?

Speaker 2 (02:38):
No, it's a it's a mooka kitty and it's got
thrums on it, or what we call hook a hooker.
They aren't normally that long, so it's what you'd see
on a quarter way, except that they're in the same
color as the hooker as opposed to when you see
them on a carter. Why they're dyed black. So it's

(02:59):
it's a temporary design, but it's it's an authentic muk kitty.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, looks good.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
I tried to find out actually whether it was perhaps
her mom's, but I wasn't successful.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah, well, thank you for making the effort for us.
I really appreciate that. That's the kind of one. The
guys we called the Queen's people and they told us
she is actually traveling with like quite a contingent of
people who are glowing her up on a daily basis.
So this is not by accident at all.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
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