King Charles today signalled his support for research into the monarchy's links with the slave trade for the first time as an American historian unearthed a document revealing one of his predecessors had shares in a transatlantic slaving firm. said Charles took the issue of his family's links to slavery 'profoundly seriously' after a ledger revealed King William III was given shares in the Royal African Company. The document, which dates from 1689 and was found in a royal archive by Virginia-based historian Dr Brooke Newman, shows a transfer of £1,000 of shares in the business to William of Orange from its governor, Edward Colston.
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