Jacinda Ardern on how she found out the Queen had died: ‘A torch shone into my room’

New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern has paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II.
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‘She [the Queen] gave everything on behalf of her people’ which ‘included the people of Aotearoa, New Zealand’, Ardern said during a press conference. Ardern said she had learned of the Queen’s death when a ‘police officer shone a torch into my room at around 10 to five this morning’.

The PM said she had been reading about the queen’s ill health before going to bed, so ‘when that torchlight came into my room I knew immediately what it meant’. Queen Elizabeth had given Ardern – who was the first world leader in recent years to give birth while in office – advice about balancing leadership with raising children, Ardern said. ‘I learned much from observing her.’

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47 COMMENTS

  1. I call you madam an insane Loyalist royalist how many garden parties have you attended how many hunting games have you been party Too? False information try submitting freedom of information The Hague reference disappearing children and the royal family

  2. Jacinda adern can you be kind and get ACC to pay out all the hundreds of people suffering from your safe and effective covid vaccine adverse side effects that would be kind thing to do as a priminister

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  4. New Zealand is a great country as a British citizen I have been lucky enough to visit that amazing country and I would encourage anyone to visit!!!. They're so welcoming and polite. They immediately know your british and it adds to the humour but in general, although they're 8000 miles away …. it just feels like home its incredible tbh.

  5. If you want to know what people think of the NZ "prime minister" then read the latest comments, people hate princess Cindy. But if you want to know what the establishment wants you to think of Cindy, read the "top comments", they are always promoted in Cindy's favor.

  6. Canada, Australia, Newzealand, Bermuda, Cayman, Montserrat, Anguilla, Saint Helena, Ascension Island, Chagos archipelago are all illegitimate territories and continue to remain under the illegal occupation of the whites

  7. OMG there all coming out of the woodwork to try and out-doo each other with the Crocodile-tears and sycophantic messages this is rather like North Korea and when the loved leader is about you must scream clap and cry as people are watching your reactions and you know the WRATH if not , I see no difference …SICK

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