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Bechuanaland. Documentation on file including newspaper cutting.CU. pan to sign "Welcome To Francistown" LS. Union Jack flag at top of flag pole. Various sho...
6 lis 2016 · Bechuanaland economic and political state just before independence in 1965 as seen by Peter Fawcus, Queens Commissioner of Bechuanaland at the time, and Sir ...
This video shows rare and valuable stamps of Bechuanaland, British East Africa and Jamaica. I call them "small rarities", as they do not cost a fortune, howe...
25 lis 2016 · A United Kingdom tells the inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of...
23 lut 2017 · The A United Kingdom true story reveals that Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana (then known as the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland) met English-born Ruth Williams, a white woman, when he was studying law in London in the summer of 1947. Ruth Williams was working as a clerk at Lloyd's of London, an insurance market.
In the late 1940s, Prince Seretse Khama of Bechuanaland is studying law in Britain in preparation for his eventual ascension to the throne. There, the dashing prince falls in love with a white British clerk, Ruth Williams, and they plan to marry.
The Bechuanaland Protectorate was technically a protectorate rather than a colony. Originally the local Tswana rulers were left in power, and British administration was limited to the police force to protect Bechuanaland's borders against other European colonial ventures.
