7/10
Strange Bedfellows
13 October 2022
A tale of forbidden love suffused in the nostalgic glow common to any film set more than sixty years ago, it rather anticipates the problems Princess Margaret encountered a few years later when she declared her love for the otherwise charming and eligible Peter Townsend; coming a right royal cropper simply because he was a divorcee.

Likewise the problem here is one of convention as much as race. An Italian fellow I worked with had an African wife. Whenever they went out together he invariably got stared at by black men, which shows that the problem incurred wasn't simply a matter of white racism; as demonstrated by the scene were Sir Seretse is greeted by his uncle with a face like thunder.
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