The remake of Seretse and Ruth�s �forbidden� love

According to its directors, A United Kingdom is the gripping interracial love story that changed the epitome of the British establishment.

History tells us that in 1947 Sir Seretse Khama, who was later to become the first president of the Republic of Botswana, was an African ‘king in waiting’ of the “Bechuana” tribal lands between South Africa and Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Khama was in London studying law when he fell in love with Ruth Williams, a London ‘office girl’.