Queen Elizabeth II Hit by New Palace Racism Scandal 3 Months After Meghan Markle Interview On 6/2/21 at 11:42 AM EDT Documents unearthed by The Guardian appear to suggest Buckingham Palace had a policy of not employing "coloured immigrants or foreigners" to clerical roles in the royal household until at least the late 1960s. Buckingham Palace appeared to have a different policy for servants as the document notes the existence of "ordinary domestic posts for which coloured applicants were freely considered." The documents also show that the Queen and her household have benefitted from exemptions from sex and race discrimination laws. The incendiary claims were recorded by a civil servant in 1968 following a meeting with Elizabeth's chief financial manager, the keeper of the privy purse.