September 17, 2009

can you get me a coffee, your highness?

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Peggielene Bartels lives in Silver Spring and works as a secretary. When she steps off an airplane in Ghana on Thursday, arriving in the coastal town her family has controlled for half a century, she will be royalty — with a driver, a chef and an eight-bedroom palace, albeit one in need of repairs she will help finance herself.

“I’m a big-time king, you know,” said Bartels, seated at her desk at the Ghanaian embassy just off Van Ness Street NW, where she has worked for almost 30 years.

posted by Deron Bauman in government, international | * | 3 comments 

comments

  1. Coop on September 17th, 2009 at 10:12 am

    I love this. What a delightful bit of cheerful sanity.

  2. Andrew Simone on September 17th, 2009 at 3:18 pm

    Ditto, Coop.

  3. The Everyday Minimalist on September 18th, 2009 at 7:27 am

    This is incredible. Such a cool story.

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