Explosive report by The Guardian exposes Buckingham Palace's racist hiring practices
The documents found in the UK’s National Archives show"coloured immigrants or foreigners" from ethnic minority backgrounds were banned from holding clerical roles in the royal household.
Buckingham Palace banned “coloured immigrants or foreigners” from holding clerical roles in the royal family household until at least the late 1960s,The documents found at the UK’s National Archives read that Queen Elizabeth II’s chief financial manager informed civil servants in 1968 it was “not … the practice to appoint coloured immigrants or foreigners” to clerical roles in the royal household.
The palace said records from the 1990s show people from ethnic minority backgrounds worked for the Queen but that it did not keep employment race data from past decades.England enacted laws in the 1960s to ensure employers did not discriminate on the grounds of race or ethnicity.
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