seretse was exiled and forced to renounce his throne.illiams sanderson, introduced the couple. i'd never met an african until i went to the london missionary society conference in '46 and i was then 24. i went up to dinner and at the table was seretse khama. seretse was the inheritor as chief of the tribe, like a king. we became very good friends and i used to go up every saturday night. my sister ruth didn't have anything to do on a saturday night so i asked her if she would like to come up with me. we met through my sister and indirectly through the london missionary society. they used to have weekend sort of thing is for african students. they clicked from the word go. you get this attraction, it's impossible to describe but it's just there. we discovered we liked the same type of music, always jazz. people like ella fitzgerald. it was amazing how they had so much in common with such different backgrounds. in those days, the racial situation in london was not very good. whites and blacks did not go out together, especially a white gir