LONDON — Senior aides to Queen Elizabeth II barred the hiring of “colored immigrants or foreigners” in office roles at Buckingham Palace until at least the late 1960s, a media report said Thursday.
The Queen and Britain’s royal household also negotiated an exemption from 1970s-era laws on race and sex discrimination that still exists today, The Guardian reported.
Citing historical papers it unearthed at the National Archives, the newspaper said that in 1968, the Queen’s chief financial manager told government officials of the hiring policy towards ethnic minorities.
“It was not, in fact, the practice to appoint colored immigrants or foreigners” to clerical and other office…
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