Buckingham Palace stopped “coloured immigrants or foreigners” from working as anything other than domestic servants in the royal household as recently as the late 1960s, according to documents found in the National Archives.
The ban prevented people from ethnic minorities from taking up clerical jobs at the Palace, let alone anything more senior. The discovery of the files comes after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex suggested that the royal family was racist.
Critics have often said that the Palace employs few black, Asian or ethnic minority people in senior positions.
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