Laura Trevelyan urges King Charles to apologise for historical links to slave trade

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.

Later this month the Trevelyan family and other British families will form a group to exert more pressure.

Trevelyan first travelled to Grenada last year to make a documentary for the BBC about the slavery issue and handled whips and neck braces, as well as metal manacles specially ordered by the British enslavers for small children.