Where was Dame Kiri Te Kanawas?

Answer 1

She is a New Zealand Native (maori) Opera Singer. She is not the firswt to be (Damed) from Down Under, there was , of course Dame Nellie Melba of Australia who died in l93l. Two Dames from Down Under, the Noble touch! Melba was evidentally Damed by Queen Mary, and Kiei te Kanawas by Queen Elizabeth II. it is of course preferable the ceremony be performed by a Female monarch. after all the French artist Rosa Bonheur was decorated by the Empress Eugenie (in l894). Eugenie was dowager, non-regnant at the time.