 Further allegations that Elizabeth used racist slurs to refer to black people were strongly denied by Major Colin Burgess . Major Burgess was the husband of Elizabeth Burgess , a mixed @-@ race secretary who accused members of the Prince of Wales 's Household of racial abuse . Queen Elizabeth made no public comments on race , but according to Robert Rhodes James in private she " abhorred racial discrimination " and decried apartheid as " dreadful " . Woodrow Wyatt records in his diary that when he expressed the view that non @-@ white countries have nothing in common with " us " , she told him , " I am very keen on the Commonwealth . They 're all like us . " However , she did distrust Germans ; she told Woodrow Wyatt , " Never trust them , never trust them . " While she may have held such views , it has been argued that they were normal for British people of her generation and upbringing , who had experienced two vicious wars with Germany . 
