The Royal Family, British history, slavery & reparations
King Charles is in Antigua at the Commonwealth Summit and is expected to make a speech touching on the slave trade
King to open Commonwealth summit as Burnham begins talks on slavery apology – BBC News
The Royal African Company(founded 1660)was responsible for transporting 187,000 slaves from Africa to English colonies including the Caribbean islands between 1672 and 1720. Many were branded with the initials of the Royal who founded the Company, the Duke of York ‘DY’. How this translates into the wealth of the Royal Family remains open to question. It may be suggested that this is a matter for the Government not the Royals but there is surely nothing to stop the Royal Family from signalling that they believe reparations in some form should be forthcoming.
Of course the defenders of British history with nothing left out are back again suggesting that slavery and Britain’s role in it doesn’t need to be looked at or understood further.
Fortunately some significant new research has uncovered exactly who the British slave traders were, what positions they held and what they did with their wealth
The historian David Olusoga made a two part TV series about the findings which was broadcast on the BBC earlier in 2026.
Finding Britain’s Slave Traders with David Olusoga – BBC iPlayer
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