New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the best advice the late Queen Elizabeth gave her about becoming a leader and mother is to ‘you just go through with it’. Ardern, who was in London on Wednesday, became the first woman in the country’s history to give birth while in office when she gave birth to her daughter in 2018, and was pregnant when she first met the Queen.
Ardern, 42, is one of the few leaders to become president while pregnant. Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan gave birth in 1990 while he was Prime Minister. Elizabeth said she had already had two children when she came to the throne in 1952 at the age of 25, and that she had two more children during her reign, so she had good advice. Ardern said.
Ardern told the BBC: “If you think about the leaders who have been in that position, there was Benazir Bhutto and myself. But before that there was the Queen. There were very few notables.” said. Laura Kuensberg”. “So I said to her, how, how did you get through? She just said, ‘Well, you go through with it.’ I think it was the best and most factual advice I could give.
“You just live each day as it comes. She did. But I have so much respect for her now that I know what it takes to be a mother and a leader.” The Queen herself said. , spoke of “a celebration of home and family” in her 2017 Christmas speech after celebrating her 70th wedding anniversary to Prince Philip, who died in 2021. The Queen died on September 8 at the age of 96.
Her children – Charles born 1948, Anne born 1950, Andrew born 1960 and Edward born 1964 – acknowledged the dual roles of mother and monarch during her 70-year reign, Respectful. “Dear Mummy, Mother, Your Majesty, Trinity,” Andrew said in a statement Sunday.
“Mother of Nation, your devotion and personal service to our nation is unparalleled…Mama, your love for your son, your care, your care, your trust. I will cherish it forever.” The Queen and Philip famously embarked on a six-month Commonwealth tour in late 1953, without their children, after her coronation.
Her only daughter, Princess Anne, denied all media suggestions that the Queen was a distant mother in a 2002 BBC interview, stating: The time and responsibilities placed on her as her monarch, in what she had to do and in her travels she had to do.
“But I don’t think any of us have given it a second thought that she didn’t care about us, just like any other mother.”
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