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The Crown in New Zealand

Television (Full Length) – 1970

He found New Zealanders calm, law-abiding and industrious, and heard no trace of a local accent in their speech. In short he thought New Zealanders very British, describing them as 'enthusiastic but restrained'.
– From the narration, on Prince Edward's 1920 tour
12,000 miles from the motherland, she is not among strangers. She has come to her New Zealand home.
– How Queen Elizabeth II's arrival was announced in 1953