When you were a kid, did you ever have that fantasy that you were actually a prince or princess but nobody knew it?
In 2008, a telephone call to a woman who is a secretary living in suburban Washington. DC brought that fantasy to reality for her.
Her name is Peggielene Bartels, and in 2008 when her uncle passed away, she was notified that she had been chosen as the new king of the town of Otuam in her native Ghana.
Suddenly facing a dizzying array of new responsibilities, King Peggy, as she became known, embraced the new role and assumed leadership of her community.
In 2012 she told her story in a book called King Peggy and that’s when I had the chance to meet her. So here now from 2012. King Peggy.
King Peggy still works at the embassy of Ghana in Washington, and still lives in the suburbs. She is 70.
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