UK government and royals called on to investigate slavery links after Guardian apology

UN expert Prof Verene A Shepherd called on all ‘non-state actors in the UK … to lobby their government and the royal family to pay reparation’. Photograph: Jamey Keaten/AP

UN experts are leading calls for the British government and royal family to investigate their historical links to transatlantic slavery and take steps toward restorative justice.

The Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian, apologised on Tuesday for the role the newspaper’s founders had in transatlantic slavery and announced a decade-long, multimillion-pound programme of restorative justice.