Erna Takazawa

In June 2015, Erna Takazawa did something that most of us can only dream about. She stood in Buckingham Palace and shook Queen Elizabeth II’s hand.

“The Queen looked at me and said in her British accent: ‘so Erna are you really from Samoa?’ And I said ‘yes I am but I am part Japanese, you are very good to notice your Majesty’.”