Governor-General Dame Cindy Kiro will likely meet the Queen and the royal family in person during the monarch's platinum jubilee celebrations next month.
Kiro revealed to the NZ Herald she was planning to travel to England soon to attend events commemorating the Queen's 70 years of service - the first British monarch to do so.
"I'm looking forward to an audience with [the Queen] or certainly with senior members of the royal family and I expect to see quite a number of them at various events celebrating and acknowledging her service," Kiro said.
Kiro, New Zealand's first wāhine Māori Governor-General and of Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Rēhia and Ngāti Māhia descent, said she was incredibly proud of her British heritage.