Lockdown Queen Jacinda Ardern Receives Damehood at Windsor Castle for Draconian COVID-19 Response
New Zealand‘s prime minister Jacinda Ardern received a damehood during an investiture held at Windsor Castle today.
Prince William, 42, was the royal handing out the honours, and his friendship with Jacinda, 44, was on full show as the two interacted.
Smiling broadly in each other’s company, the two friends were pictured looking comfortable as the Prince of Wales pinned the honour onto her sash, near her waist.
The mother-of-one donned a navy blue maxi dress in a silky fabric, with short sleeves, a conservative round neckline, and generous skit.
She paired the frock with a pair of black heeled pumps. Meanwhile, her brunette locks were styled into a low bun, with two tendrils left loose to hang at either side of her face.
Meanwhile, Prince William looked dapper in dress uniform and a pair of classic black Oxford-style shoes.
According to reports, Jacinda was appointed a Dame Grand Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2023 King’s Birthday Honours for her services to the state.
The appointment came just months after her shock resignation as PM.
Her official citation listed her response to the Covid-19 pandemic, ‘positioning New Zealand as having one of the lowest Covid-19 related death rates in the Western world’.
It also listed her leadership in response to the 15 March terrorist attacks.
In a statement ahead of today’s ceremony, the former PM said: ‘It will be a really special day – but amongst it all, it will be home that I will be thinking of.
‘For me, accepting an honour is a way to say thank you to my family, those I worked with, and all the people who supported me to undertake a role that will forever be the greatest privilege of my life.’
She added that her family would be joining her for the event, as well as Whaea Esther Jessop from the London Māori club Ngāti Ranana – which had allowed her don one its ceremonial clocks (called kākahu) for the ceremony.
Mr Ed, Sir, PLEASE, I must protest at your lack of consideration for the eyes of your readers!!
Did you really HAVE to put images of dl with the article??????
Urrrrrrgghhhh!!!
(Seeing those pics has quite ruined the morning – I ‘ll have to have a cuppa to recover)
Cringeworthy…….what a travesty of a nothing award to a nothing of worth individual.
I second that K. The fact that she’s a rabid Republican just makes the whole charade even more repulsive.
She’s a democrat when it suits her.
Both look like scarecrows.
I would reckon wills and his lady won’t be around that long. They do not look ,like healthy people much like pops the king.
The nazi’s have got em with their jobs.
Someone predicted that there would soon be a new King and it wouldn’t be who everyone thought it would be.
time will tell.
You’ve got to admit Billy does look a lot like his grandfather. At least he didn’t pop out a ginga like his dickhead brother.
The ‘dickhead brother’ is most likely a brother from another daddy.
Different genetic input.
That Diana sure had spring-loaded thighs. Boooooing 😜
Now the ‘dickhead brother’ is part of The Ghost and Mrs Sparkles duo.
You can book them for an RSA event.
Achtung Achtung.
Willy from the house if Saxe-Coburg-Gotha,
They did a fake name change when US entered WW1 in 1917, when they could see they would not be reunited with their relatives across the puddle.
WW1 was THEIR family dispute where millions died ; were physically and emotionally damaged for life ; lost their housing and possession.
ALL for a family dispute. Fuck royals, for all time.
I do actually commend H Clark for getting rid of Sirs and Dames.
The “Great Fluffball’ Sir Johnny ‘Sit on His hands for eight years’ brought them back.
They are sexist crap for a start.
The man gets Sir and the wife auto gets Lady,
If the sheila gets ‘Damn’ the hubby gets nothing.
The Knighthoods were completely ruined – under liebour- in the 1980s when so many charlatans in business got knighthoods. Frauds who were devious paper shufflers that killed the NZ Stock market for a quarter century. (well that and really shitty companies like fletcher Challenge under dumbarse Hugh; Telecon under Trissy Gattung)
Mind you Mr. Ron Brierley gave his back. That was good of him!!!
Howitis@0819
It’s very interesting to see an avowed communist, who actively espoused ‘Equality for all’ and the destruction of Western Capitalism’ in the pursuit of the ‘socialist utopia’, quite happily accept the very symbols of the ideology she was trying to destroy.
Evidently her much-vaunted ‘ideology’ takes second-place to self-aggrandisement and spectacle although she’s probably convinced herself that she ‘Being rewarded by the citizens of a grateful nation’ for her ‘Services to humanity’ and for taking such good care of herself during the covid ‘crisis’.
One wonders whose ear the WEF/NWO whispered in to ‘engineer’ the ‘award, and how much money changed hands as a result…
‘Purchased’ awards anyone – and by whom?
…how much money changed hands as a result…
Nonsense
all former PMs are offered it automatically.
Bolger, Shipley, Keys, even Blinglish who was only ‘blink and you will miss it’ PM for 9 months
Clark turned it down.
Nude nut will take it. It is on his schoolboy checklist
Cullen who pretended to hate elites and skited that the rich farmers paid for his secondary education took his
Fortunately dead now,
Pity he didn’t use the sword as it was used in battle!
Participation trophy for doing as told. This is just reinforcing bad behaviour and stupid ideas, fuck the royals and fuck cindy with the brrom stick she rode in on
She was too scared to get the gong in NZ because she would have got protests to ruin her day!