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The royal family has been accused of racial discrimination – again. New reports alleging decades of systemic discrimination have been brought up against Buckingham Palace, along with documentation to back up the claims.
This shocking news comes just three months after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle revealed they, too, had experienced racial discrimination while serving as senior members in the royal family. However, these new allegations did not come from Harry and Meghan.
According to The Guardian, new documents have surfaced that "shed light on how Buckingham Palace negotiated controversial clauses exempting the Queen and her household from laws that prevent race and sex discrimination." These clauses still exist today.
The British newspaper wrote that the Queen’s courtiers used these clauses to ban “coloured immigrants or foreigners” from serving in clerical roles in the royal household until at least the late 1960s.
The British newspaper said that it found these documents in the National Archives while investigating the royal family's use of "archane parliamentary procedure... to secretly influence the content of British laws."
Though the British goverment made equality laws that made it illegal for employers to discriminate based on race in the 1960s, the Queen has been exempt from all such laws. The palace did not dispute this fact.
In March of this year, Meghan Markle sat down with Oprah to share the inequalities she struggled against as a member of the royal family. She shared that figures within the institution voiced concerns about the shade of her son's skin before he was born, and that the royal family did not provide support in countering racist narratives brought out by the media.
Following Meghan and Harry's interview with Oprah, Prince William had responded to allegations of racism within the royal family, commenting that his family is "very much not racist."
Though according to the new documents found by The Guardian, the prince may be wrong.
