King’s apologises for banning students during royal visit

King’s College London has apologised for blocking students from campus and sharing their data with police before a royal visit in March.

In a letter to staff, acting principal Evelyn Welch apologised and admitted that banning the students from campus “did not meet our values” as a university.

She said a report into the incident, published at the same time on 4 July, was “uncomfortable” and revealed that King’s had breached its own data protection policies and GDPR rules by sharing students’ data with the police.