I found this story to be very thought provoking.

In her family's village of Bumpe, the people rejoiced in the news of their newly discovered princess, someone they'd come to regard as a potential savior.

It was a job she wasn't sure she wanted.

I have heard some adoptees say that they fantasized about what their birth parents were like as they were growing up. Other adoptees will scarcely acknowledge that they ever thought of their birth parents at all. The fantasy birth parents could be an extremely fertile subject and a place for the imagination to run wild.

Some adoptees are convinced that one of their birth parents must be some a distinguished political figure, or a celebrity and that they were relinquished to “save the family name”. I actually do know of a few rare cases where this actually is the case, but definitely this is an extreme rarity. Unwed mothers were certainly taboo and to be hidden. Serious measures were often taken to insure that no one knew of a pregnant unwed mother-to-be in a family. The really interesting fact that often comes to light years later is that often neighbors and family knew anyway despite all the secretive and onerous measures taken.

Back to childhood fantasies about birth parents – what could be the biggest fantasy for a young girl do you suppose? How about dreaming that she is a princess? Aren’t most little girls somewhat fascinated with the “princess persona”? The adoptee in this story discovers that she is related to royalty. In fact, technically, she really is a princess. Not exactly the kind that you might imagine though!

However, that is where her dream goes awry. In fact, she is related to royalty in a village that the article calls a "war-ravaged" African nation. Is this ever a childhood fantasy gone wrong? It reminds me of that saying about "be careful what you wish for".