Markle spoke candidly in 2020 about her relationship with the tabloids, saying that the "large number of false and damaging articles" caused "tremendous emotional distress" during her time within the royal household. The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the sphere of suffering shared, and in this case extended to the death march itself, there is no spiritual or emotional legacy here to offset any reader reluctance. We are doing this work of our own volition to better understand where our funding came from and to see if our predecessor bodies had links to or received profits from the historic transatlantic slave trade. That research is under way.”

The hotel made way for the city's first ever paved street outside its front door, where it has been alleged the tobacco lords would meet to discuss the price of slaves in Africa, the growing conditions of tobacco in Virginia, the sugar crop in Jamaica and the tobacco market in France.George III wrote an essay as a teenager arguing that slavery had no moral basis. Photograph: Prisma Archivo/Alamy George III ( 1760-1820 )

Those of us living in the rich societies of the west have all, albeit profoundly unequally, enjoyed the fruits of racial capitalism,” stressed historian Catherine Hall, head of UCL’s Legacies of British Slavery project; “we are all survivors of slavery, not just those who can directly trace their lineages.”Sugden, John (1990). Sir Francis Drake. London: Barrie & Jenkins. ISBN 0-7126-2038-9. OCLC 20931112. The report says: “Long-established endowment funds may give rise to a reputational risk linked to the possibility of their original source, or early investment of funds, having slave trade connections. This could be the case for the original Queen Anne’s Bounty and Ecclesiastical Commissioners’ funds.” The premises once even had an iron door as shameful cash from the tobacco business were stored in the heart of the building. Some of the original iron safes where money was stored still exist today. Hamilton, Alan (22 June 2006). "Slaver's descendant begs forgiveness". The Times . Retrieved 1 July 2020.