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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Nadeem Badshah

Laura Trevelyan urges King Charles to apologise for historical links to slave trade

Laura Trevelyan
Laura Trevelyan told the Times: ‘We’ve apologised, why can’t the King?’ Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/Shutterstock

The former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan has called for King Charles and the British government to apologise for historical links to the slave trade.

In February, Trevelyan went to Grenada and read out a formal apology on behalf of her family to islanders who had descended from enslaved people and announced a £100,000 educational fund drawn from her own savings. Members of her family tree had owned at least a thousand enslaved people on the Caribbean island.

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