Once upon a time, a handsome, intelligent man fell in love with an equally clever and intelligent woman, the couple married and lived happily ever after. Ruth Williams and Seretse Khama met in Britain in 1947, he was a young man training to be a barrister and she was a clerk working for Lloyds of London.
The pair immediately felt an affinity for one another and courted for a year before Seretse and Ruth married. As well as being an interracial couple, Seretse has a lot more to his past than Ruth ever knew. Seretse is a prince of Bechuanaland and lives a hugely important life in a county that feels a whole world away from the comparatively cosmopolitan London.
Though Ruth and Seretse married - much against the advice of all their peers - apartheid in South Africa, the people of Bechuanaland and the British government all played a part in keeping Sertse from his birth right and went to extreme lengths to have the couple extradited from the country.
Through all the struggles Ruth and Seretse stood by one another's side and their love remained a pinnacle for the couple, leading to the birth of their child. Determination eventually lead to the couple returning to the Prince's homeland, where he went onto winning the hearts of the people and the formation of the Botswana Democratic Party.
Starring: David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Tom Felton, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Arnold Oceng, Jack Lowden, Jack Davenport, Terry Pheto, Vusi Kunene, Charlotte Hope, Laura Carmichael, Jessica Oyelowo, Karl Farrer, James Northcote, Theo Landey