{{Short description|New Zealand journalist (born 1959)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Clare de Lore | image = Clare de Lore 2018 (cropped).jpg | alt = | caption = De Lore in 2018 | birth_name = Clare Frances de Lore | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|11|07|df=y}} | birth_place = Christchurch, New Zealand | death_date = | death_place = | party = | spouse = {{marriage|Don McKinnon|1995}} | children = 1 | relatives = | occupation = Journalist | signature = }} '''Clare Frances de Lore, Lady McKinnon''' (born 7 November 1959) is a New Zealand journalist.
De Lore was born in Christchurch on 7 November 1959, the daughter of Jim and Moya De Lore.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19591110.2.2.1 |title=Births |date=10 November 1959 |work=The Press |volume=98 |issue=29048 |page=1 |access-date=25 April 2024 |via=PapersPast}}</ref> She grew up in Riccarton in Christchurch, and attended St Teresa's School and Villa Maria College.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |url=https://www.noted.co.nz/archive/listener-nz-2015/from-royalty-to-rwanda/ |title=From royalty to Rwanda |journal=The Listener |last=Warner |first=Kirsten |access-date=2019-07-27 |archive-date=27 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190727032157/https://www.noted.co.nz/archive/listener-nz-2015/from-royalty-to-rwanda/ |url-status=live }}</ref> After completing a journalism course, she worked at Radio New Zealand and in the State Services Commission.<ref name=":0" /> She is the author of ''Every Kitchen Tells a Story'', a book of interviews of mainly women about their kitchens.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Every Kitchen Tells a Story |url=https://www.amazon.com/Every-Kitchen-Tells-Story-Clare/dp/1869503562 |website=www.amazon.com |access-date=2019-07-27 |archive-date=16 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130716062553/http://www.amazon.com/Every-Kitchen-Tells-Story-Clare/dp/1869503562 |url-status=live }}</ref> From 2010, de Lore has been Rwanda's Honorary Consul General to New Zealand, and is an International Ambassador for Hope and Homes for Children, a charity working in 13 countries in eastern Europe and Africa.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Clare |last=de Lore |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10618369 |title=Clare de Lore: A country striving to rise again after genocide |date=4 January 2010 |access-date=2019-07-27 |issn=1170-0777 |archive-date=15 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110215111121/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10618369 |url-status=live }}</ref>
De Lore married New Zealand politician Don McKinnon in 1995, and they have one son.<ref name=":0" />
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