He may have completed his journey in June, but it began at the start of the year when he was chatting to his young daughter.
“Over the winter, Emily and I were playing, and she has a fixation on princesses. She asked me, in all seriousness, if she’d be a real princess someday,” Heaton said. “And I said she would.”
Princess Emily, who sleeps in a custom-made castle bed, is showing signs of being a generous ruler, and said that she wants to ensure children in the region have enough food.
Shelia Carapico, professor of political science and international studies at the University of Richmond, said the family’s claim will need to be recognised by the other African nations.
She said it was not plausible for someone to plant a flag and say they have political control over the land without legal recognition from neighbouring countries, the United Nations or other groups.
In addition, she said, it is not known whether people have ownership of the land, regardless of whether the property is part of a political nation.
当一名父亲承诺将自己七岁的女儿变成真正的公主时,他并不是在开玩笑。
为圆女儿的公主梦,美国弗吉尼亚州男子耶利米·希顿竟不惜远赴非洲,在埃及与苏丹之间的一片无主沙漠,插上3名子女设计的“国旗”,并宣布成立北苏丹王国。
据希顿称,去年冬天他与女儿艾米丽在家中聊天,自小就做“公主梦”的艾米丽非常认真地问:“我将来会否成为真正的公主?”
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