Photo:\u00a0ANDREW MATTHEWS\/Pool\/AFP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n“It was a privilege to present you with this deserved award at Windsor today!” he wrote<\/p>\n
In a video accompanying the post, Dame Jacinda described it as a huge honour.<\/p>\n
“I feel really humbled by the chance to be here with my family and really I see it as an acknowledgement of them and of every person I worked with, and of every person whose supported me and that includes a very large number of New Zealanders.”<\/p>\n
Dame Jacinda was in the UK for a meeting of the prince’s Earthshot Prize, of which she is a trustee.<\/p>\n
The movement behind the prize was just as important, she said.<\/p>\n
“About telling every single person out there that we don’t have to wait, for this catastrophe to happen to us, that there are things we can do and that are being done.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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