Word: bamangwatos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bride's answer to the traditional Bamangwato tribal welcoming cry was not recorded, but she indicated graciously that any friends of her husband's were of course friends of hers...
...since Edward VIII gave up his throne for Wally Simpson had society anywhere suffered a comparable constitutional crisis. All week long, under giant camelthorn trees at Serowe, thatched-hut capital of the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland in South Africa, the tar-black chieftains of the Bamangwato tribe pondered and palavered...
Their lineal chief, strapping, handsome, Oxford-trained Seretse Khama, 27, sat among them as they weighed his choice for wife & queen. While studying law in England, Seretse had married Ruth Williams, 24, a fair-haired London typist. By Bamangwato custom the Chief may wed only with the consent of tribal elders. Seretse had not asked for such consent. He was summoned home to defend his action before the Bamangwato peers...
...British high commissioner once deposed him because he ordered the flogging of a white trader who seduced Bamangwato women; London quickly restored the regent (TIME, Oct. 16, 1933). In 1947, when George VI & family visited Bechuanaland, Tshekedi greeted them in the full-dress uniform of the Royal Horse Guards, presented to his father by Queen Victoria...
...Tshekedi prepared to leave the Bamangwato reserve for strange pastures in southern Bechuanaland, Seretse waited impatiently for his White Queen from London. But the British government would have to give approval first. "An extremely difficult problem," noted the Manchester Guardian. "Approval would scandalize . . . white South Africans . . . Rejection might irretrievably offend the [black] peoples . . . This is on its lesser scale a crisis comparable with the abdication of Edward VIII and its possible implications are almost unlimited...