king peggy and honor to have you on this program. let me start by saying i have been to 16 african countries. the first one i went to, and it is still the one i regard as having the friendliest people, ghana. i am sure i will get hate mail for that. but to the people are the nicest people. >> they are really beautiful people inside and out. we always welcome people to our country. we are humble people. we love people to come visit. tavis: i love going back as often as i can. i have not been to otuam. now that i have the hook up knowing that king, -- the king, that might be on my stop. you were born in ghana. you stayed there how many years? >> i was there for all of my years as a teenager. then i went to london because i was with my mom after her divorce. i was very close to my mom. she was afraid, i may not be able to function. so she said you have to go out there and experience things for yourself. i am going to educate you. what you want to do? i said i wanted to be a caterer. i went to england and my brother had a friend who used

, why is it king peggy?hat hold the executive decisions, make all the decisions. knowing me with my strong personality and my people knows that and i would have been a very lousy queen. because going and really -- the queen mother takes care of the children and discuss it with the king and the king makes the decision. so for instance, if i get information and give it to the king and the king is not going to act on it, i would fight with the king so it's better that they give me this big pie. >> did you have any sense that you were in line to become the king or was this a complete shock to you? >> it was a shock to me. it was really a shock to me for the fact that in my family we have never taken a woman as a king before. even though i'm from the royal family, i never, ever thought one day that i would become a king. and then it was really shocking to me. and then the most shocking part was when i got to the village, the village was really in a mess. my palace was in a horrible state that you can't even live

hudson valley and protecting the main crossing, king's ferry, which was a few miles to the south, which washington desperately needed. so arnold and peggy go after west point, and she manages a few little finaglings on her own, and arnold then goes and rejoins washington. he hasn't been promised it yet but he's told the british that he has it, and he then goes to join the army. they were just across the hudson and a little bit north, i guess around tappan, which is where they ended up a few weeks later. he gets there and washington says, "well, we sort of changed our strategy. we are not going to have an inactive campaign, and therefore i'm not going to give you west point. we're going to attack new york, and i want you to lead the left wing of the army." this was a terrific honor, and arnold sort of blushed and fumbled and stamped around and said, "well, yes, sir, of course," but then the next day washington got intelligence about some british movements that made him call off the attack on new york which actually were an indirect result of some intelligence that arnold had sent in to new york. he called off the attack and said, "if you