today, cnn has learned president biden and the first lady will meet with queen elizabeth at windsor castle. this is after the g7 summit later this month, but the meeting with her majesty the queen comes amid a damning new report today from the guardian, which has uncovered documents revealing how buckingham palace allegedly banned colored immigrants or officers from holding positions at the palace at least in the late 60s. anna stewart is following this for us. reporter: this report is really disturbing not least as it comes just weeks after the royal family had to deny that they re racist. we reached out to buckingham palace for a response. they have said this. claims based on a secondhand account of conversations from over 50 years ago should not be used to draw or infer conclusions about modern day events or operations. the principles of crown application and crown consent are long established and widely
known. quite aside from the historical context here and the fact that there appears to have been systemic racism within the institution of the royal family at least in the 1960s is the fact that there is still, today, exempt from such equality legislation. that is what is meant by crown application and crown consent. the palace say that they do comply with equality lies in spirit and in practice. if complaints are made, though, they are essentially dealt with in-house, and following the revelations by prince harry and meghan in that interview with open oprah winfrey, people question whether that process is good enough. the royal family have denied they re racist but are they doing enough to protect and promote diversity within the royal household. thank you so much, anna stewart. now to a historic move in israel that s set to impact u.s.-mideast relations. overnight, a coalition of rival political parties who usually don t agree on much unified around the same goal, oust
One of the Queen’s most senior aides revealed in the late 1960s it was not the “practice” to employ “coloured immigrants or foreigners” to clerical posts in the royal household, archive documents have shown.
Lord Tryon, the keeper of the privy purse at the time, spoke about minorities in the royal workforce in documents unearthed by the Guardian newspaper.
The paper also outlined how in the late 1960s civil servants and senior figures from Government negotiated with royal aides an exemption for the Queen and the household from legislation designed to prevent race discrimination.
A Buckingham Palace spokesman stressed the Queen and the household comply with the present Equality Act “in principle and in practice”, adding: “Claims based on a second-hand account of conversations from over 50 years ago should not be used to draw or infer conclusions about modern-day events or operations.”
One of the Queen’s most senior aides revealed in the late 1960s it was not the “practice” to employ “coloured immigrants or foreigners” to clerical posts in the royal household, archive documents have shown.
Lord Tryon, the keeper of the privy purse at the time, spoke about minorities in the royal workforce in documents unearthed by the Guardian newspaper.
The paper also outlined how in the late 1960s civil servants and senior figures from Government negotiated with royal aides an exemption for the Queen and the household from legislation designed to prevent race discrimination.
A Buckingham Palace spokesman stressed the Queen and the household comply with the present Equality Act “in principle and in practice”, adding: “Claims based on a second-hand account of conversations from over 50 years ago should not be used to draw or infer conclusions about modern-day events or operations.”