King Peggy / Peggielene Bartels
In 2008, Peggielene Bartels was working as a secretary at the Embassy of Ghana in Washington, DC, when she was told she had been chosen King of Otuam, a fishing village in Ghana half a world away. Born in Ghana and now a naturalized U.S. citizen, Bartels had never even lived in Otuam. She had visited relatives there, but she... read full bio