Former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan, who quit her job to work fulltime on the Caribbean's fight for reparatory justice, wants King Charles to apologize for the royal family’s historic involvement in the slave trade.
"There would be a great healing power to an apology for slavery and some kind of reparative justice strategy from the King," Laura Trevelyan tells PEOPLESimon Perry is a writer and correspondent at PEOPLE. He has more than 25 years’ experience at PEOPLE covering the royals, human interest and celebrity.Trevelyan, 55, spearheads a group of British families who want to make reparations for their ancestors' participation in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
During a visit to the Bahamas in 2021, Charles expressed his anguish over the crimes of the past, referring to the"appalling atrocity of slavery, which forever stains our history." And during a trip to Kigali, Rwanda,in a speech,"I cannot describe the depths of my personal sorrow at the suffering of so many, as I continue to deepen my own understanding of slavery's enduring impact.
Charles and William, 41, are both avid supporters of recognizing the achievements and contributions of the Windrush generation. In the 1940s and '50s, Caribbean immigrants were invited by the U.K. government to live and work in Britain to help rebuild the nation after WWII.Echoing Charles' speech last year, a Buckingham Palace spokesperson tells PEOPLE, “This is an issue that His Majesty takes profoundly seriously.
While Charles has expressed “regret without saying sorry,” Trevelyan says, “presumably there's a memo somewhere in Whitehall which says you can't apologize because if you do, that opens you up for liability.”Trevelyan, who was a political correspondent during her long and successful career at the BBC, says, “ clearly doing as much as he possibly can and as a constitutional monarch who can't step ahead of the position of the government.
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