Summary
THE Queen's message on the car radio caught me unawares before I could reach the "off" button. However, in the season of goodwill to all, I gave the woman a hearing. Refreshingly she focused for a while on discrimination within her realm, perhaps - who knows? - prompted by the illiberal Blunkett and the Clarke continuum.
If the Queen wishes to root out discrimination she won't have far to look. One is hard-pressed to find a black orAsian face amongst her entire household from the ladies of the bedchamber to the equerries, flunkeys and assorted men in tights. Below stairs the cooks, chambermaids, butlers and skivvies show a disproportionately tiny representation of dusky faces. The only one we can recall was the West Indian woman who took the palace to an employment tribunal claiming palace staff were institutionally racist.See the full content of this document
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Queen's Message
Outside, the Household Cavalry and other snooty regiments...
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