New theme for Royal tour
PA Auckland Queen Elizabeth will be reaffirming her role as Queen of New Zealand during the 1990 Royal visit. Mr Paul Cotton, the tour director, said this that the Queen’s 1990 visit would have a new theme in line with the 150th
anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. The Queen would visit the country as the great-great-grand-daughter of Queen Victoria to meet descendants of the Treaty of Waitangi signatories. She would attend the Waitangi Day ceremony — even though it may be used as a focus for Maori
grievances and sovereignty claims. The celebrations would be held at Waitangi on February 6 and the Queen was scheduled to visit other locations where the treaty was signed. Mr Cotton said: “She will get alongside the treaty partners. After all,
it was her great-great-grandmother who initiated the treaty.” The Queen last attended Waitangi celebrations during her 1974 visit.
Mr Cotton said she would be meeting many Maori people who had shown strong allegiance to the Crown through the years.
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