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Peggielene Bartels
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Peggielene Bartels

How to pronounce Peggielene Bartels: PEG-eh-leen bar-TELLS

An interview with Peggielene Bartels

King Peggy talks with Stephen Colbert about her biography, King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village



Stephen Colbert Interviews King Peggy
February 27, 2012

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