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The news is likely to add pressure to the UK Royal Family, who has in recent months faced accusations of racism following a tell-all interview Prince Harry and Meghan.
Palace Must Address Institutional Racism Past and Present, U.K. Lawmaker Says
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Lawmaker Bell Ribeiro-Addy called for action after
The Guardianunearthed a 1968 government memo outlining a Royal Household policy that confined people of color to servant and domestic roles.
The declassified papers detailed discussions that led to the palace being given an exemption keeping some race and sex discrimination allegations out of the courts.
Ribeiro-Addy, MP for Streatham, in South London, wrote on Twitter: The monarchy is a public institution funded by public money.
Queen Elizabeth II during a visit to The Royal Australian Air Force Memorial on March 31, 2021 near Egham, England. The queen s Royal Household had a policy of confining colored immigrants to domestic roles in the 1960s, declassified papers suggest.
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.”