Buckingham Palace barred ethnic minorities from office jobs during the 1960s, the Guardian newspaper reported, citing documents in the United Kingdom's National Archives.
The revelation, published on the newspaper's front page, was based on papers showing that Queen Elizabeth’s chief financial manager told civil servants in 1968 that it was not the palace’s practice to hire "coloured immigrants or foreigners" for clerical posts and other office jobs.
The palace replied forcefully to the historical allegations, stressing that the queen and her household comply "in principle and in practice" with anti-discrimination legislation. "Claims based on a second-hand account of conversations from over 50 years ago should not be used to draw or infer.
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