The Queen’s household changed its diversity strategy last year to one that actively emphasised the importance of inclusionThe Queen is to employ more ethnic minority staff as Buckingham Palace admitted that it “must do more” to improve diversity in the royal household. The Palace published for the first time yesterday figures on its levels of minority staff following accusations of racism from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in their Oprah Winfrey interview on television in March. SponsoredThe royal household’s accounts for 2020-21 showed that its proportion of ethnic minority employees stands at 8.5 per cent. About 13 per cent of the UK population is from an ethnic minority background, according to the 2011 Census. The Queen’s household also changed its diversity strategy early last year to

Source: The Times June 23, 2021 23:01 UTC