Cost of the crown part 3: the hidden history of the monarchy and slavery - podcast

Documents recently unearthed by historians have shown how the British royal family had ties to transatlantic slavery. Maeve McClenaghan reports While other reporters in the Guardian investigations team have travelled the country looking at horses, jewels and artworks to help uncover the royal family's hidden wealth, for his part in the Cost of the crown project David Conn looked much further back in time. With the historian Brooke Newman, he has been digging into the evidence that shows the Brit...