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Mr Heaton\u00a0told 5 live\u00a0his daughter, Emily, took a “serious tone” and asked “if one day she would be a princess”.<\/p>\n
“Being a father, I knew she was serious in her request,” he said. “I researched pieces of land that were unclaimed and was fortunate to discover it.”<\/p>\n
To celebrate her seventh birthday he made the journey to what locals call Bir Tawil to make Emily’s “dreams come true”.<\/p>\n
The father of three says he was determined to show his children he’d go to “the ends of the earth for them”.<\/p>\n
When he arrived on 16 June, he planted the flag his daughter had designed in the ground and insists his claim is legitimate.<\/p>\n
A territorial dispute between the two countries means the land is one of the last unclaimed areas on earth.<\/p>\n
Now Mr Heaton says he’ll to reach out to the African Union for support.<\/p>\n
He argues that over the years many countries, including the United States, were claimed by the simple act of planting a flag.<\/p>\n
The difference, he says, is that they were usually acts of war, but in this case he “founded the nation in love for my daughter”.<\/p>\n However unlikely it is that Jeremy Heaton will become the new King of North Sudan, he already has development plans in place.<\/p>\n Princess Emily, as she is now called by her family, has ordered her new land to become a centre for agriculture.<\/p>\n She now wears her royal crown at all times and says it’s “very cool” being a princess but she doesn’t know when she’ll visit what she thinks is the world’s newest country.<\/p>\n Egypt, Sudan and the United Nations will have to recognise the Kingdom of North Sudan before she’s officially the daughter of a king.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A man from America has claimed a small patch of Africa, because his daughter wants to be a princess. Jeremy Heaton told BBC Radio 5 live that he had travelled from Virginia with his flag to proclaim the area the “Kingdom of North Sudan”. The area lies between Egypt and Sudan, is 800 square miles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":32077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-32075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Bir](\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/625\/media\/images\/76267000\/jpg\/_76267005_birtawil.jpg\")
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