Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Seretse Khama and wife Ruth Williams captured on film in 1950

Oxford educated prince Seretse Khama appears alongside his wife in this black and white newsreel archive filmed in Botswana.

The forbidden love that shocked the world: New film tells explosive story of the Botswanan prince and his middle-class English bride - and how their secret marriage triggered a diplomatic crisis

The extraordinary love story of the late Botswanan president Sir Seretse Khama and his middle-class white English wife Ruth Williams endured despite all the obstacles and outrage.