New Zealand Woman’s Weekly 1812

It might have been Oscars week, but New Zealand’s best and brightest got together in Wellington for another reason entirely – to celebrate 125 years of women’s suffrage in Aotearoa. Politicians, actors, directors and television personalities were among hundreds who congregated at Government House to celebrate the milestone, which led to Kiwi women being the first in the world to achieve the right to vote. The crowd was celebrating the launch of Suffrage 125, the official programme to honour the milestone, and Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy gave a rousing speech in which she acknowledged the mood among many women following the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements. “In the last year, we have heard women’s voices raised in a way we haven’t for a long time – and their anger is…

It might have been Oscars week, but New Zealand’s best and brightest got together in Wellington for another reason entirely – to celebrate 125 years of women’s suffrage in Aotearoa. Politicians, actors, directors and television personalities were among hundreds who congregated at Government House to celebrate the milestone, which led to Kiwi women being the first in the world to achieve the right to vote. The crowd was celebrating the launch of Suffrage 125, the official programme to honour the milestone, and Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy gave a rousing speech in which she acknowledged the mood among many women following the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements. “In the last year, we have heard women’s voices raised in a way we haven’t for a long time – and their anger is palpable,” she…

If you put an entry in for our Grandparent of the Year competition, it’d be best to not be too far fr om the phone this week – or at least make sure your answerphone is working! I tried to keep it together going through the entries last week, but it was an impossible task. If you enter ed, or were entered in the competition, you really deserved to win – every single one of you. From the smaller gestures of love to the unimaginably large, every single one tugged at my heartstrings. I felt like I was passing on a huge bur den to our other three judges when I pressed send to give them all the information, but I also felt incredibly proud of the huge number of New Zealanders…

If you put an entry in for our Grandparent of the Year competition, it’d be best to not be too far fr om the phone this week – or at least make sure your answerphone is working! I tried to keep it together going through the entries last week, but it was an impossible task. If you enter ed, or were entered in the competition, you really deserved to win – every single one of you. From the smaller gestures of love to the unimaginably large, every single one tugged at my heartstrings. I felt like I was passing on a huge bur den to our other three judges when I pressed send to give them all the information, but I also felt incredibly proud of the huge number of…

The Queen is the absolute epitome of the famous British stiff upper lip and not known for displays of emotion in public. Even her own family have rarely seen her cry. Now it’s been revealed that Her Majesty’s sister, the late Princess Margaret, only saw the Queen reduced to tears once. And that was over a rather surprising reason – her long-running feud with former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The details about the Queen getting tearful are included in a new documentary on the monarch, Elizabeth: Our Queen. In it, Princess Josephine Loewenstein – a Brit who married a Bavarian prince – explains that her close friend Princess Margaret told her, “I’ve only seen my sister cry once. It was when the press put out all the articles about her…

The Queen is the absolute epitome of the famous British stiff upper lip and not known for displays of emotion in public. Even her own family have rarely seen her cry. Now it’s been revealed that Her Majesty’s sister, the late Princess Margaret, only saw the Queen reduced to tears once. And that was over a rather surprising reason – her long-running feud with former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The details about the Queen getting tearful are included in a new documentary on the monarch, Elizabeth: Our Queen. In it, Princess Josephine Loewenstein – a Brit who married a Bavarian prince – explains that her close friend Princess Margaret told her, “I’ve only seen my sister cry once. It was when the press put out all the articles about her not getting…