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《ウィリアム王子＆キャサリン妃 ”ウィンドラッシュ・デー”にカリブ系コミュニティ訪問＆記念碑の除幕式》

6 / 22 (水)

『Windrush Day』

First officially recognized as a day of celebration in 2017,

Windrush Day takes place on 22 June each year to mark the anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush on 22 June 1948.

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Part ①

『the ELEVATE centre』

a youth organisation

in Brixton, in south London

to celebrate British-Caribbean creatives

Part ②

『attend the unveiling of the National Windrush Monument』

（記念彫像の除幕式）

に出席

@ Waterloo Station

to mark Windrush Day

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6月22日は、

『Windrush Day』

（ウィンドラッシュ・デー）

第二次世界大戦後

人員不足をうけ、

1948年、ロンドンのウォーター・ルー駅に到着した

HMTエンパイア・ウィンド・ラッシュ号

その時のカリブ系移民を

”ウィンドラッシュ世代”と称する。

その後、政府の移民政策によって、

子孫たちが不法滞在者とみなされたり、

強制退去を迫られたりした事実が

2017年に発覚。

人種差別が問題に。

これをうけ、政府は

この日を、ウィンドラッシュ世代の日と定め

記念碑（100万ポンド）建立を発表した。

先日のカリビアンツアーでは

君主制からの独立や、至る所での抗議デモなど

印象的なツアーとなった、

ウィリアム王子＆キャサリン妃でしたが、

ウィンドラッシュ・デーのこの日、

記念碑のの除幕式が行われ、

お二人が出席。

ウィリアム王子はスピーチも。

記念碑を創作したのは

ジャマイカ人アーティスト

《バジル・ワトソン》氏

その前、

最初の訪問先は

カリブ系移民のコミュニティの訪問もされていた。

40歳となられ、ウィリアム王子の公務が

責務の重いものにシフトしています。。

この日の

キャサリン妃ファッションは〜！

白のパンツスーツが素敵っ！！！

いやあ〜〜、ホント、変わりましたよねえ、、、

としみじみ。。。

こういうね、一見シンプルなスタイルを見ると

余計に分かる、、、違いが。

以前なら、まずパンツスーツもないし

こんな、テーラーシルエットのパンツを履く日が来るなんて、、、

（私が着せる日を笑）夢見たが、着て頂けないと、、（笑）

ましてや、白でワントーンだなんて

パンツスーツが好きな人でも

オシャレに着こなすにはかなり難しい。

が、超お似合い＆完璧に着こなされてます❤️

って、私が決めることじゃないがw

また、何様（笑）

しかも、初見では素敵すぎて、一瞬気づかなかったが

ジャケットは着まわし！！！

カリビアンツアーでデビューした

《アレキサンダー・マックイーン》

のパンツスーツのジャケットを

（ちなみに、この時のパンツは、スリム）

別のパンツとコーデ。

それも、カリビアンツアーでデビューの、

ヴィンテージJKと合わせてたパンツ！！

同ブランド同士なので、納得ではあるが

じゃあ、このスリーピースは

実は全て同素材？！？！

それとも、

違うけど、色や素材感が合うから

スーツからバラしても

こんなに見事にイメージ変えて着回しが可能なのか、、、

とにかくお見事！！

カッコいいですね〜❤️

イヤリングには、NEWの

《チョーク・ジュエリー》

のものを初チョイス

建築家でもあるデザイナーが

ロイヤル・オペラ・ハウスの天井からインスパオアされたデザイン。

なんとなく、エスニックでアフリカ的なニュアンスがあるようにも思えるデザイン

（私だけ？）

バッグも《マルベリー》のクロスボディを使いまわし。

このバッグが、

モードでスタイリッシュな印象を決定づけてる。

ジャケット《Alexander McQueen》（2022年3月23日＠ジャマイカ）

パンツ《Alexander McQUeen》”Flared crepe tailored trousers”（＝2022年3月22日＠ベリーズ出発）？

NEW イヤリング《Chalk Jewellery》”Florence earrings” £70

白のバッグ《Mulberry》”Amberley handbag in white”（＝2022年3月22日＠ベリーズ出発）

靴《Gianvito Rossi》”Gianvito 105”

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Part ①

『the ELEVATE centre』

a youth organisation

in Brixton, in south London

to celebrate British-Caribbean creatives

visit ELVATE where they met younger generations of the British-Caribbean community and other diasporas, who represent the next generation of British creative talent

Kensington Palace said:

"ELEVATE is an innovative youth programme led by the London Borough of Lambeth which aims to open up the creative and cultural sector to every young person in the borough, working towards a future where everyone can benefit from a rich, dynamic and diverse cultural environment. ELEVATE works with a network of schools and colleges, training organisations and employers to build strong pathways from early years through to adulthood to ensure that young people are able build skills, access opportunities and achieve successful careers within the creative industries."

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動画

The Duchess of Cambridge showed off her film-making skills during a visit to a creative centre for young people in Brixton along with her husband Prince William. Kate had a go at using a DSLR camera with a gimbal at the ELEVATE centre in south London during a filming and photography workshop.

ELEVATE at Brixton House in London to meet with younger generations of the British-Caribbean community

visit to youth group ELEVATE in Brixton where she got to grips with a camera to practise filming

a keen photographer, no doubt enjoyed the opportunity to get behind the lens and was heard asking questions about zooming

'Davinia Clarke, 22, an illustrator and visual artist who learnt how to use the camera during a course, said of Kate: "She wanted to understand how to put it on and move it around.

"I thought, 'Let's try and put it on her.' She was up for it! She did better than me. At one moment it literally just dropped off my arm. I was like, 'Oh gosh' She said it was really heavy, and you need a lot of upper body strength."

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Part ②

『attend the unveiling of the National Windrush Monument』

（記念彫像の除幕式）

に出席

@ Waterloo Station

to mark Windrush Day

Scultpure of a family standing on suitcases was designed by the Jamaican artist and sculptor 《Basil Watson》

Couple joined by members of the Windrush generation for the unveiling of £1 million project

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動画

Black men and women are still facing racism and discrimination in Britain and the nation would be poorer without the efforts of the Windrush generation, the Duke of Cambridge has said. William spoke as he and the Duchess of Cambridge attended the unveiling of a national monument at London's Waterloo Station to celebrate the dreams and courage of the Windrush generation who came to help Britain rebuild after the Second World War.

accompanied by Baroness Floella Benjamin,

the former Blue Peter presenter

attending the unveiling of the National Windrush Monument at Waterloo Station

Born in Trinidad, Floella came to England as a Windrush child.

attends the unveiling of the National Windrush Monument at Waterloo Station in London

Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove, Windrush passenger Alford Gardner, The Duke of Cambridge and Baroness Floella Benjamin at the unveiling of the National Windrush Monument

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In a speech at the statue unveiling, Prince William (pictured) acknowledged that the future the Windrush generation sought and 'deserved' has not yet come to pass, saying: 'Discrimination remains an all too familiar experience for black men and women in Britain in 2022.'

Prince William says Windrush generation did not get the future they 'deserve'

Thank you for inviting Catherine and me. It is a privilege to be here with you all.

Today is a day we celebrate and honour the Windrush Generation and the enormous contribution each and every one of them has made, and continue to make, to our society.

I am delighted that so many of that generation and their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren are here today.

When the Windrush Generation sailed from the Caribbean to rebuild war torn Britain, they did so as British citizens, answering a plea to help our country thrive again.

Many of them were not strangers to these shores. In the decade before 1948, thousands served in the RAF, either flying, navigating or as ground crew keeping our squadrons airborne – including Allan Wilmot, the eldest Windrush pioneer whose family are with us today.

These people didn’t have to come. They volunteered to fight for King and country – in the full knowledge that many would never make it home again.

As one of the inheritors of that great military tradition I understand how much we owe to these men and women. Today’s ceremony would not be complete without remembering their sacrifice.

Over the past seven decades, the Windrush Generation’s role in the fabric of our national life has been immense.

Today, as we look around us, we can see just how many of the institutions in our country are built by that generation: commerce and manufacturing, sports and science, engineering and fashion.

Here in Waterloo Station, we are reminded of the role played by thousands of people from the Windrush Generation in our essential public transport system – from train drivers to conductors and technical staff.

Although it is not where the passengers of the Empire Windrush first arrived, subsequently many thousands of Caribbean people did pass through Waterloo and dispersed to cities across the UK. So the placement of the monument here is an acknowledgement of the contribution of those people to one of the most important elements of our national infrastructure.

Just down the road, in St Thomas’s Hospital, we can reflect on the Windrush Generation’s huge contribution to the NHS, a service founded only two weeks after the Empire Windrush docked in 1948. Since then, over 40,000 Windrush and Commonwealth nurses and midwives have cared for those in need.

Indeed, every part of British life is better for the half a million men and women of the Windrush Generation.

Be it public life – and we are a stone’s throw from the Borough of Southwark, home to Sam King MBE, Windrush passenger, postman, founder of the West Indian Gazette, the first black mayor in London, campaigner and the co-founder of the Windrush Foundation.

Be it arts and culture – and we need look no further than Floella, the face of children’s television to millions of young people for more than a decade.

There are simply too many people to list. And we know without question, that the Windrush Generation have made our culture richer, our services stronger, and our fellow countrymen safer.

My family have been proud to celebrate this for decades – whether that be through support from my father on Windrush Day, or more recently during my Grandmother’s Platinum Jubilee, as people from all communities and backgrounds came together to acknowledge all that has changed over the past seventy years and look to the future.

This is something that resonated with Catherine and me after our visit to the Caribbean earlier this year. Our trip was an opportunity to reflect, and we learnt so much. Not just about the different issues that matter most to the people of the region, but also how the past weighs heavily on the present.

Sadly, that is also the case for members of the Windrush Generation who were victims of racism when they arrived here, and discrimination remains an all too familiar experience for black men and women in Britain in 2022.

Only a matter of years ago, tens of thousands of that Generation were profoundly wronged by the Windrush Scandal. That rightly reverberates throughout the Caribbean community here in the UK as well as many in the Caribbean nations.

Therefore, alongside celebrating the diverse fabric of our families, our communities and our society as a whole – something the Windrush Generation has contributed so much to – it is also important to acknowledge the ways in which the future they sought and deserved has yet to come to pass.

Diversity is what makes us strong, and it is what reflects the modern, outward-looking values that are so important to our country.

Today, as we stand together to witness Windrush Pioneers, Alford and John unveil Basil’s landmark monument, we are reminded of our shared history and the enormous contribution of the Windrush Generation.

Without you all, Britain would simply not be what it is today.

I want to say a profound thank you to every member of that generation, and the generations that have followed. And I want you to know that you can count on mine and Catherine’s continued support in helping us achieve a future they would be proud of.

Thank you again for inviting us to join you on this important day.

Kensington Palace noted:

"It symbolises the courage, commitment and resilience of the thousands of men, women and children who travelled to the UK from 1948 to 1971 to help rebuild post-war Britain, and acknowledges and celebrates the outstanding contribution and dedication of the Windrush Generation to British history."

What is the Windrush scandal?

Between 1948 to 1970, nearly half a million people moved from the Caribbean to Britain, which in 1948 faced severe labour shortages in the wake of the Second World War.

The immigrants were later referred to as 'the Windrush generation'. It refers to the ship MV Empire Windrush, which docked in Tilbury on 22 June 1948, bringing workers from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and other islands.

The 492 passengers were temporarily housed near Brixton in London. Over the following decades some 500,000 came to the UK.

Working age adults and many children travelled from the Caribbean to join parents or grandparents in the UK or travelled with their parents without their own passports.

Since these people had a legal right to come to the UK, they neither needed nor were given any documents upon entry to the UK, nor following changes in immigration laws in the early 1970s.

Many worked or attended schools in the UK without any official record of their having done so, other than the same records as any UK-born citizen.

In 1973, a new immigration act came into force putting the onus on individuals to prove they have previously been a resident in the UK.

In 2010, the Home Office destroyed thousands of landing card slips recording Windrush immigrants’ arrival dates in the UK. It came despite staff warnings that the move would make it harder to check the records of older Caribbean-born residents experiencing residency difficulties, it was claimed

Then in 2014, a protection that exempted Commonwealth residents from enforced removal was removed under a new law. Theresa May was Home Secretary at the time.

Under a crackdown on illegals, Windrush immigrants were obliged to provide proof they were resident in the UK before 1973.

In 2018, questions were raised in Parliament about individual cases that had been highlighted in the press.

On March 14, when Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn asked May about an individual who had been refused medical treatment under the NHS during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, Theresa May initially said she was 'unaware of the case', but later agreed to 'look into it'.

Parliament thereafter continued to be involved in what was increasingly being referred to as 'the Windrush scandal'.

On April 16, David Lammy MP challenged then Home Secretary Amber Rudd in the House of Commons to give numbers as to how many had lost their jobs or homes, been denied medical care, or been detained or deported wrongly.

Lammy called on Rudd to apologise for the threats of deportation and called it a 'day of national shame', blaming the problems on the government's 'hostile environment policy'.

Rudd replied that she did not know of any, but would attempt to verify that. In late April, Rudd faced increasing calls for her to resign and for the Government to abandon the 'hostile environment policy'. There were also calls for the Home Office to reduce fees for immigration services.

On May 2, Labour introduced a motion in the House of Commons seeking to force the government to release documents to the Home Affairs Select Committee concerning its handling of cases involving people who came to the UK from Commonwealth countries between 1948 and the 1970s. The motion was defeated by 316 votes to 221.

On April 25, in answer to a question put to her by the Home Affairs Select Committee about deportation targets, Rudd said she was unaware of such targets, saying 'that's not how we operate'.

The following day, Rudd admitted in Parliament that targets had existed, but characterised them as 'local targets for internal performance management' only, not 'specific removal targets'. She also claimed that she had been unaware of them and promised that they would be scrapped.

Two days later, The Guardian published a leaked memo that had been copied to Rudd's office. The memo said that the department had set 'a target of achieving 12,800 enforced returns in 2017-18' and 'we have exceeded our target of assisted returns'. The memo added that progress had been made towards 'the 10% increased performance on enforced returns, which we promised the Home Secretary earlier this year'.

Rudd responded by saying she had never seen the leaked memo, 'although it was copied to my office, as many documents are'.

The New Statesman said that the leaked memo gave, 'in specific detail the targets set by the Home Office for the number of people to be removed from the United Kingdom. It suggests that Rudd misled MPs on at least one occasion'.

On April 23, Rudd announced that compensation would be given to those affected and, in future, fees and language tests for citizenship applicants would be waived for this group.

On April 29, The Guardian published a private letter from Rudd to Theresa May dated January 2017 in which Rudd wrote of an 'ambitious but deliverable' target for an increase in the enforced deportation of immigrants. Later that day, Rudd resigned as Home Secretary.

On June 29, the parliamentary Human Rights Select committee published a 'damning' report on the exercise of powers by immigration officials. MPs and peers concluded in the report that there had been 'systemic failures' and rejected the Home Office description of 'a series of mistakes' as not 'credible or sufficient'. The report concluded that the Home Office demonstrated a 'wholly incorrect approach to case-handling and to depriving people of their liberty', and urged the Home Secretary to take action against the 'human rights violations' occurring in his department.

On July 3, the Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC) published a critical report which said that unless the Home Office was overhauled the scandal would 'happen again, for another group of people'.

The report found that 'a change in culture in the Home Office over recent years' had led to an environment in which applicants had been 'forced to follow processes that appear designed to set them up to fail'. The report questioned whether the hostile environment should continue in its current form, commenting that 'rebranding it as the 'compliant' environment is a meaningless response to genuine concerns'.

Home Office replies - On June 28, a letter to the HASC from the Home Office reported that it had 'mistakenly detained' 850 people in the five years between 2012 and 2017. In the same five-year period, the Home Office had paid compensation of over £21million for wrongful detention.

Compensation payments varied between £1 and £120,000; an unknown number of these detentions were Windrush cases. The letter also acknowledged that 23 per cent of staff working within immigration enforcement had received performance bonuses, and that some staff had been set 'personal objectives' 'linked to targets to achieve enforced removals' on which bonus payments were made.

In a report published in December 2018, the UK's National Audit Office found that the Home Office 'failed to protect [the] rights to live, work and access services' of the Windrush scandal victims, had ignored warnings of the impending scandal, which had been raised up to four years earlier, and had still not adequately addressed the scandal.

On March 19, 2020, the Home Office released the Windrush Lessons Learned Review. This study, described by the Home Secretary as 'long-awaited', was an independent inquiry managed and conducted by Wendy Williams, an inspector of constabulary.

The report was a scathing indictment of the Home Office's handling of Windrush individuals, and concluded that the Home Office showed an inexcusable 'ignorance and thoughtlessness', and that what had happened had been 'foreseeable and avoidable'. It further found that immigration regulations were tightened 'with complete disregard for the Windrush generation', and that officials had made irrational demands for multiple documents to establish residency rights. The study recommended a full review of the 'hostile environment' immigration policy.

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OUTFIT

キャサリン妃　白のパンツスーツ

ジャケット《Alexander McQueen》（2022年3月23日＠ジャマイカ）

（2022年3月23日＠ジャマイカ）

パンツ《Alexander McQUeen》”Flared crepe tailored trousers”（＝2022年3月22日＠ベリーズ出発）？

（＝2022年3月22日＠ベリーズ出発）？

NEW イヤリング《Chalk Jewellery》”Florence earrings” £70

The regal forms from the ornate details and geometry found within the Main stage auditorium ceiling of the Royal Opera House has been reimagined throughout this collaboration to create a timeless collection

'Chalk Jewelry, by architect Malaika Carr creates unusual, geometric, jewelry all handmade by Malaika in her London based studio. Chalk's collections are influenced by architectural elements, everyday objects and bold colorful, cultural patterns. Materials are sourced from small UK based shops.'