New Maori king takes throne in New Zealand

A 51-year-old university worker took his place on the ornately carved wooden throne of New Zealand’s Maori monarch today, hours before his mother, the late queen, was buried on a sacred mountain.

Tuheitia Paki, eldest son of the late Queen Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu, wore his mother’s feather cloak as he was named the new Maori king in the village of Ngaruawahia.