Buckingham Palace Banned People of Colour From Office Roles.

Today’s revelation merely confirms the deep and profound bigotry of the Queen, her courtiers and the entire clan.

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In today’s Guardian’s newspaper, it was reported that there was a ban on Black and Asian people from commonwealth countries doing office work, at the Buckingham palace, according to documents found in the national archives.

The ban on Black people working in office roles was made possible by an arcane law, known as the “Queens Consent”, which was negotiated to exempt Queen Elizabeth II, from laws banning discrimination, on the basis of race and gender, that were passed in the 1960s by the Labour government.

The documents found by the guardian, reveal how the Queen’s financial manager informed civil servants that “ it wasn’t the practice to give clerical jobs to “ coloured immigrants and people from the commonwealth”

That the Queen has been exempt from laws banning racism would have made it impossible for Black and Asian staff, who were treated badly, to take the palace to the court of law.

According to the newspaper, it’s unclear when the practice of not recruiting Black and Asian to clerical roles ended, as the palace refused to answer questions about the ban and when exactly it was revoked.