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Documents recording request from monarch to keep secret the will of a relative partly withdrawn from public view
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Documents recording request from monarch to keep secret the will of a relative partly withdrawn from public view
The royal household reportedly prohibits "coloured foreigners" from working in clerical roles, only as domestic servants.
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.
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 B...
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 B...