New racism row hits Buckingham Palace, months after Meghan Markle’s remarks

Britain’s royal family is again in the news after archived papers accused the Buckingham Palace of being racist.

It has just been months since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, claimed members of the royal family had made overtly racist comments about the skin colour of their first-born child. The palace denied the allegations. But now Britain’s Guardian newspaper unearthed documents that revealed that the Queen’s courtiers had banned ethnic minority immigrants and foreigners from holding clerical positions at Buckingham Palace until at least the late 1960s.

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According to the Guardian report, in 1968, the Queen’s chief financial manager told civil servants minorities were only allowed to be hired as domestic servants.

The palace told CNN that conversations from over 50 years ago cannot be used to infer conclusions about modern day events or operations.

They said the palace follows provisions of the Equality Act, in principle and in practise.

Earlier, Prince Williams had said that the royals were not racist at all.

In March, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, in an interview with American TV host Oprah Winfrey, revealed how members of royal family were worried about their son Archie’s skin colour before his his birth. However, Markle did not name anyone.

She said the Royal Family had concerns and discussions about “how dark” Archie might be because of Meghan’s biracial background.