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Buckingham Palace accused of banning people from minority ethnic backgrounds from clerical roles The i 4 hrs ago Serina Sandhu © Provided by The i It remains unclear when the policy on hiring at Buckingham Palace changed (Photo: Reuters) The Royal Family has become embroiled in another race row after it was alleged that people from minority ethnic backgrounds were historically banned from taking up clerical roles at Buckingham Palace. It has now emerged that the Queen’s c...

The Queen’s advisers banned “coloured immigrants or foreigners” from clerical posts in the royal household until at least the late 1960s, archive documents have revealed. The papers, reported by The Guardian, 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 and sex discrimination. The legislation...

Race is an important issue for the monarchy after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex accused an unnamed member of the royal family of a racist comment.