Man Claims Kingdom so Daughter Can be Princess

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A Virginia man says he has claimed a kingdom in Africa so his daughter can be a princess.

Jeremiah Heaton told the Bristol Herald Courier (http://bit.ly/1rcQHtp) that he recently trekked to a small, mountainous region between Egypt and Sudan called Bir Tawil. No country claims the land.

Heaton says he planted a flag designed by his children there so that he could become a king — and more importantly, so his 7-year-old daughter Emily could be a princess. They named the area the Kingdom of North Sudan.

Shelia Carapico, a professor of political science and international studies at the University of Richmond, says Heaton would not have political control over the land without legal recognition from neighboring countries, the United Nations or other groups.

Heaton says he hopes to get Sudan and Egypt to recognize the kingdom.

Comments 3
Default-user-icon lucky (Guest) 15 July 2014, 12:06

hey, still better than ours in fact couldn't do much worse

Missing ArabDemocrat.com 15 July 2014, 19:27

He should write a book. Proclaim it to be the word of God and that God gave him and his descendent the land. Expel the inhabitant and claim that they are anti-Heatonites and that they are foreign to the land.

Default-user-icon mazen (Guest) 15 July 2014, 15:05

maybe we should move there.