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Racist royals? Buckingham Palace banned ethnic minorities from office roles

Archive also sheds light on Queen Elizabeth’s exemption from race and sex discrimination laws

Buckingham Palace's lack of ethnic minorities has long been obvious – even to devotees | Phillip Hall

The Queen signs her annual Commonwealth day message at Windsor Castle in March. Photograph: WPA/Getty images The Queen signs her annual Commonwealth day message at Windsor Castle in March. Photograph: WPA/Getty images Thu 3 Jun 2021 12.33 EDT Last modified on Thu 3 Jun 2021 12.34 EDT We now know that the Queen’s courtiers banned “coloured immigrants or foreigners” serving in clerical roles until at least the late 1960s, and that her household took great pains to be exempt from anti-discrimination legislation. There must have been concerns that the lack of black faces in the palace could be turned into legal action. Even devotees of royalty raised voices suggesting, albeit very gently, that this situation should change. One of the most flattering of the Queen’s biographers, Elizabeth Longford, commented in 1983 that “people are still hoping that a post might be found for someone from her black Commonwealth, high up on her permanent staff”.