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Buckingham Palace responds to report ‘coloured immigrants or foreigners’ used to be banned from jobs – ABC News
The palace says a report that non-white people used to be barred from clerical jobs with the royal household was based on a second-hand account of conversations…
Buckingham Palace has responded to a report that non-white people were barred from clerical jobs with the royal household until at least the late 1960s.
- The palace said it complied with the provisions of the Equality Act
- The royal family has faced accusations of racist behaviour many times before
- The palace was already reviewing its diversity policies
The palace called the report in the Guardian a second-hand account from more than half a century ago.
The paper quoted a civil servant saying in 1968 that,…
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