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    RUTH WILLIAMS was born in Blackheath in South London, the daughter of George and Dorothy Williams. Her father had served as a captain in the British Army in India, and later worked in the tea trade. She was educated at Eltham Hill Grammar School and then served as a WAAF ambulance driver at various airfields in the south of England during the Second World War. After the war, she worked as a clerk for Cuthbert Heath, a firm of underwriters at Lloyd's of London.

    In June 1947, at a dance at Nutford House organised by the London Missionary Society, her sister introduced her to Prince Seretse Khama. He was the son of the paramount chief, Sekgoma II, of the Bamangwato people and was studying law at Inner Temple in London after a year at Balliol College, Oxford. The couple were both fans of jazz music.

    Their plan to marry caused controversy with elders in Bechuanaland and with the Apartheid government of South Africa. It was considered a racial scandal. The British government interve

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    Ruth Williams Khama

    First Lady of Botswana from 1966 to 1980

    Ruth Williams Khama, Lady Khama (née Williams; 9 December 1923 – 22 May 2002) was the wife of Botswana's first president Sir Seretse Khama, the Paramount Chief of its Bamangwato tribe. She served as the inaugural First Lady of Botswana from 1966 to 1980.[1]

    Early life

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    Khama was born in Meadowcourt Road, Blackheath in South London,[2] the daughter of George and Dorothy Williams.[3] Her father had served as a captain in the British Army in India,[4] and later worked in the tea trade. She had a sister, Muriel (later Muriel Sanderson), with whom she remained close.[5]

    She was educated at Eltham Hill Grammar School and then served as a WAAF ambulance driver at various airfields in the south of England during the Second World War.[6] After the war, she worked as a clerk for Cuthbert Heath, a firm of underwriters at Lloyd's of London.[7]

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    by Clare Rider, IT Archivist 1998-2009

    'A difficult problem, to which some prominence has been given in the Press recently, has arisen from the marriage to an English girl of Seretse Khama, the Chief Designate of the Bamangwato Tribe in the Bechuanaland Protectorate.' So begins the initial memorandum to the British Cabinet on the subject of the Bamangwato chieftainship by Patrick Gordon Walker, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, dated 19th July 1949. It was to be the first of many such memoranda, since the marriage of a black African Chief to a white English girl in London was to cause a diplomatic storm in the British Commonwealth which was to last almost a decade. In a year that has witnessed the death of Lady Khama, as Ruth Williams was to become, it is appropriate to re-tell the story of her romance with the late Seretse Khama, a member of the Inner Temple, and the 'difficult problem' to which it gave rise.

    Seretse Khama was born on 1st July 1921, the son of Sekgom

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