Africa. South Africa. Basutoland (now Lesotho). Maseru.Here the Prime Minister, with a member of the British colonial, diplomatic and consular officials staff wearing a uniform and his wife, Lady Dorothy Macmillan (left) at a party for local chiefs and their wives.
Basutoland was a British Crown colony established in 1884 due to the Cape Colony's inability to control the territory. The colony was brought under direct authority of Queen Victoria, via the High Commissioner, and run by an Executive Council presided over by a series of British Resident Commissioners.. Basutoland was renamed the Kingdom of Lesotho upon its independence from the United Kingdom on 4 October 1966.