Ex-BBC journalist who made formal apology on behalf of her family to descendants of enslaved also wants UK government to express remorse
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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