Shades of Blue was a short-lived serial drama about crooked police officers in which one character had a saying: “The proof is in the paperwork.” It didn’t matter what really happened on a given day, in other words—it only mattered what was put on the record. Well, the paperwork has come through for the inhabitants of Buckingham Palace. A new report from The Guardian reveals a document showing a ban as late as the 1960s by the Queen’s courtiers on hiring “colored immigrants or foreigners” in clerical roles, though they were allowed to be hired as domestics. This would explain why there isn’t a single person of color on The Crown, which is starting to feel less like a hyperbolic drama and more like a documentary with every passing interview.
1960s by the Queen’s courtiers on hiring “colored immigrants or foreigners” in clerical roles, though they were allowed to be hired as domestics. This would explain why there isn’t a single person of color on
uncovered a document in the National Archives from 1968, summarizing discussions between a civil servant for the elected government and Lord Tryon, the keeper of the privy purse—who handles the Queen’s finances—over proposed expansions to the UK’s racial discrimination laws.
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