PM Honours

The Damehood to Jacinda Ardern is entirely appropriate, and normal. For those interested here is what other PMs have got after they left office.

  • Bill English KNZM
  • John Key GNZM
  • Helen Clark ONZ
  • Jenny Shipley DNZN
  • Jim Bolger ONZ
  • Mike Moore ONZ
  • Geoffrey Palmer KCMG
  • David Lange ONZ
  • Robert Muldoon GCMG
  • Bill Rowling KCMG
  • Jack Marshall GBE CH
  • Keith Holyoake KG GCMG CH

If you take the honours in terms of the order they are worn, the highest down is:

  • Knight of the Garter – Holyoake
  • Order of NZ – Lange, Moore, Bolger, Clark
  • GNZM – Key, Ardern
  • GCMG – Muldoon
  • GBE – Marshall
  • KNZM/DNZM – Shipley, English
  • KCMG – Rowling, Palmer

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