Kaura Taylor is living as a handmaiden in the woods for a self-proclaimed royal family after leaving her job at Five Guys in Texas.
Kaura Taylor was found living with an “African” tribe in Scotland.
A former Five Guys waitress ‘missing’ from the US has rejected calls to ‘come home’ – and insists she’s ‘happy’ living as a handmaiden in a ‘tribe’ in Scotland. Kaura Taylor, 21, fled Dallas, Texas, with her one-year-old daughter in May and shocked family and friends back home when she turned up as part of the ‘Kingdom of Kubala’ set up in the woodlands near Jedburgh.
It is understood the high-school graduate, who also worked at a Murphy USA gas station and was described as a ‘church-going’ child, had been messaging the self-proclaimed King and Queen for months before leaving her former life behind. She has since become part of the tribe alongside Queen Nandi, 43, a mother of seven who was born Jean Gasho and her husband ‘King Atehene’.
The trio have settled in a forest in the Borders town, with the stated intention of reclaiming land they claim was stolen from their ancestors in the Highlands 400 years ago. In her first in-depth interview about her past, Kaura, who is known within the tribe as Asnat. reveals she had never even left Dallas before arriving in Scotland – but now had no intention of going home.
King Atehehe, his queen Nandi and handmaiden Asnat who have set up camp in woods in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, where they have founded the kingdom of Kubala(Image: SWNS)
Kaura, who sits by the feet of her ‘King and Queen’ while they perch on chairs in the tent, has to look up at him for approval before he lets them speak. And as she opens up about her past life, Kaura said she misses some aspects of American living, but had ‘no regrets’ leaving ‘everything she knew’ behind her.
Her role within the tribe involves making food and fires as a ‘willing subserveant’ and tidying up behind them in the camp. She is also the only one allowed to touch the ‘edomites’ and takes gifts from visitors to pass to the ‘royal couple’. Several members of her family and friends have continuously reached out to her from America, concerned about her treatment and safety within the tribe.
But rejecting their pleas, Kaura said: “Anyone who knew me on a personal level in America has always known about my very strong opinions on spirituality, and always known about how I feel in regards to our customs like submission – certain things that have always been a critical value of mine.
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“I guess I’m just trying to say that it wasn’t that much different from how I live now. I was always here in the spirit, and my beliefs and my values have always aligned with this lifestyle. Being a part of Kubala is something that was always in me.” Kaura said she had seen many of the messages telling her to ‘come home’ but claimed many were from people who barely knew her.
She added: “Of course I recognise some of them, but I had two actual friends. A lot of these people had casual, cordial associations with me in high school or middle school, but any personal relationships would know already about this lifestyle, because I’ve always been very opinionated. I don’t know what their need to be associated with me now is – these aren’t people that I care about.
“Those people who do know anything about where I come from – I lived a very hard life. Health-wise was just the tip of the iceberg. The part of Texas, the part of Dallas I come from – it was a very hard life.” Kaura had claimed in previous videos she fled a ‘toxic’ family, an accusation strongly denied by her family.
Her baby is understood to have been taken into care by the UK authorities and is being returned to the US. Kaura said there were some things she missed about her ‘former life’ that was all she ever knew.
Queen Nandi of the Kingdom of Kubala(Image: SWNS)
She added: “Who wouldn’t miss some things about everything they’ve ever known? I left everybody that I’ve ever known. I only knew Dallas. I never really even travelled around Texas.
“Of course, I miss some foods. There’s moments where I’ll think about certain people who’ve passed away – life was really hard, so you’d lose a lot of people along the way – but there is nothing that amounts to what I’ve gained with this lifestyle. I can only see that progressing. I can only see a positive outcome.
“There is no doubt in my mind that the rest of the tribes that will join us in the near future in this journey will have a similar experience. The King says our God works gradually, so it’s not a shock to your system. It wasn’t like I woke up one day and was a completely different person – which is kind of the narrative that’s being portrayed.
“I see a bright future. This is just the beginning – all of the persecution that we face, our ancestors faced this tenfold. We are very grateful. We are very faithful people – we walk by faith and not by sight, so we don’t know what tomorrow will hold.” Clashes between the tribe and locals have ramped up in recent days.
An ‘attack’ on the camp was filmed by the ‘queen’ and Kaura became visibly distressed and had to be calmed down while a group arrived to ‘torment’ them. The tribe had already been evicted from one site and a further eviction notice was served on Friday ordering the tribe to vacate its current spot by Monday evening.
These have already been ‘rejected’ by the ‘King and Queen’ who say they don’t recognise local laws. Speaking from the camp, the ‘King’, who’s real name is Kofi Offeh, said: ” The Kingdom of Kubala is for the chosen ones – our people who were deported from here from the four corners of the earth, Haiti, Ghana, Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica.
“Outside of that, there are people who would want to be part of Kubala, people of other races. If they see the light and want to be part of the light, their spirit is tested, and they are made to perform certain basic rituals to confirm their willingness and desire to serve our creator.
The missing American woman gave an offering of Irn-Bru, a Scottish soda, and shortbread sticks to the so-called King Atehene.
“When that is done, they are welcome to come and learn our ways and to abide by our laws, not the laws of the world. We believe in submission. As men, we submit to the creator. The women submit to the men, the children submit to their mother, and the pets submit to the children.
“There is a hierarchy in Kubala, which promotes peace and harmony. This is one of the laws of Kubala. We are on a pilgrimage, and what happens tomorrow is determined by Yahowah. Today we are in a tent – tomorrow you may meet us in a castle, in our old ruins, for nothing in Kubala is a shock to us.”
The self-proclaimed King added: “We do not work on the Sabbath day, which is Saturday. We do not eat pork and unclean meat, so if you want to be part of Kubala, you have to leave the world behind and reconnect with the narrow road so that you now see the glory of innocence.”