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The Kensington Palace in London (archive picture): Connections of the residences to the slave trade are examined
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The British palace administration has announced that it is investigating its own involvement in slavery.
The research on colonial history is overdue, said the chief curator Lucy Worsley of the organization Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) of the "Times".
HRP manages six royal palaces in the UK, including the Tower of London and the public spaces of Kensington Palace.
"The time has come. We are late. We haven't done enough," said investigator Worsley, who is also known as a television historian in the UK, the Times.
Draw an honest picture of the story
The colonial past of Great Britain has been the subject of increased public debate in recent months after the death of the African American George Floyd in the United States sparked international anti-racism protests.
Protesters in the UK overturned a statue of a slave trader in Bristol, among others.
According to Worsley, the focus of the study is on buildings from the Stuart period (1603 to 1714).
They were partially financed with profits from slavery.
Worsley said it was important to paint an honest picture of your history.
This is the only way to identify the "historical causes of things like social inequality".
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