Man claims African land so daughter can be a princess
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Jeremiah Heaton of Abingdon, Va., is getting quite a bit of attention for claiming a swathe of East African desert as sovereign territory so that his daughter can be a “real princess”:
Within months, Heaton was journeying through the desolate southern stretches of Egypt and into an unclaimed 800-square-mile patch of arid desert. There, on June 16 — Emily’s seventh birthday — he planted a blue flag with four stars and a crown on a rocky hill. The area, a sandy expanse sitting along the Sudanese border, morphed from what locals call Bir Tawil into what Heaton and his family call the “Kingdom of North Sudan.”
There, Heaton is the self-described king and Emily is his princess.
"Hi daughter, I've given you a desert in the middle of nowhere so you can be a princess! There's no castles or unicorns, but you'll have plenty of sand and rocks to play with. Enjoy!"
