![]() ![]() That must never, if humanly possible, be that, according to plenty of people in Britain and elsewhere. ![]() “I don’t need to think about it,” she says, with a briskness befitting her profession as a clerk. Near the start of “A United Kingdom,” which is based on a true story, they meet at a Missionary Society dance, an event not easily mistaken for the toga party in “National Lampoon’s Animal House.” Eyes lock, hearts stop, and soon-after a few decorous dates-Seretse is down on one knee, offering Ruth a ring and the prospect of a life together. Whoever loved that loved not at first sight? For Ruth Williams (Rosamund Pike) and Seretse Khama (David Oyelowo), the sighting occurs in London, in 1947.
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