Nach dem gleichnamigen Roman von Giles Foden, 2006 from Toba Kerson's notes: Ch. 12: after scene in hospital when Nicholas Garrigan, young Scottish physician who has become the physician to Idi Amin and the other doc hear gunshots from the prison and run out on the roof to see what is going on. Nicholas is called to the house of one of Amin’s wives to see her son who is having a tonic-clonic seizure. He wants the boy taken to the hospital but mother begs him not to. He asks why she doesn’t live in the house with the other wives. She says, “Since I had MacKenzie, my husband prefers us to be someplace more private.” Comments from Garrigan followed by . . “He visits the children, not me. I am a bad woman.” Der Filmtitel ist eine Anspielung darauf, dass sich Amin selbst gerne als „His Excellency President for Life Field Marshal Al Hadji Dr. Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, King of Scotland Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular“ bezeichnete. (Wikipedia)