Former prime minister Jacinda Ardern received one of New Zealand’s highest honours on Monday for her service leading the country through a mass shooting and pandemic.
Ardern was made a Dame Grand Companion, the second-highest honour in New Zealand, as part of King Charles III’s Birthday Honours. It means people will now call her Dame Jacinda. Royal honorees are typically chosen twice a year in New Zealand by the prime minister and signed off by Charles, the British king who is also recognised as New Zealand’s king.
Ardern was just 37 when she became prime minister in 2017, and was seen as a global icon of the left. Charles and Camilla with then NZ prime minister Jacinda Ardern and her partner Clarke Gayford in London in April 2018.Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, who succeeded Ardern, said she was being recognised for her service during “some of the greatest challenges our country has faced in modern times”.
Within weeks of the attack, Ardern led major changes to New Zealand’s gun laws by banning assault weapons. More than 50,000 guns were handed over to police during a subsequent buyback scheme.
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