Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams triumph over prejudice and injustice is the focus for the new film A United Kingdom Ale Russian is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Before she began working on her new film A United Kingdom, Amma Asante had never heard of Seretse Khama. Now she's bringing his story to the big screen and hopes it will illuminate a seemingly ...

‘A United Kingdom’ tells true story of star-crossed lovers Talk about a story you don’t hear every day … The movie “A United Kingdom” recounts the true tale of an African royal ...

Watch on Deadline The film’s being done with cooperation from the Khama family, which issued a statement from Botswana: “We are pleased that the story of Sir Seretse Khama and Lady Khama is ...

Much more. David Oyelowo plays Seretse Khama in "A United Kingdom. (Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) That’s because Khama was not just a handsome and charismatic African; he was also a ...

The incredible true story of the middle-class Londoner and a lawyer from Botswana is told in new film starring Rosamund Pike Oxford educated prince Seretse Khama appears alongside his wife in this ...

Ian Khama (in the toy car) with his parents Seretse and Ruth and his sister Jacqueline in England. Amma Asante, the director of the film, says that the president’s outlook on the movie changed ...

More than 50 years ago the romance between the Oxford-educated chieftain and the office clerk from London – the subject of a new film – outraged ... its best to stop Seretse and Ruth embarking ...

However, the film then has Seretse’s Uncle Tshekedi Khama act in a somewhat rebellious role, setting up his own village elsewhere in Bechaunaland. In real life, he actually left the country in ...

The film tells the story of Ruth Williams and Seretse Khama, who married in 1948. Williams was a typist in London; Khama was heir to the throne of Bechuanaland, or modern-day Botswana. Their ...