King Charles went to a service for young people and “Windrush pioneers” at St. George’s Chapel on the royal family’s Windsor estate. Britain was celebrating the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush ship, which brought workers from the West Indies.

Three-quarters of a century later, the occasion is a chance for the UK to “recognize and celebrate the immeasurable contribution that they, their children, and their grandchildren have made to this country,” King Charles said.

“Once in Britain, they worked hard, offering their skills to rebuild a country during peacetime and seeking opportunities to forge a better future for themselves and their families,” he wrote in the introduction to a book that went with a show of photographs.

Between 1948 and the early 1970s, when there was a lack of key workers after World War II, the British government invited thousands of people to come to the UK. These people are known as the “Windrush generation.”

They were mostly from Jamaica or Trinidad and Tobago and were permitted to stay indefinitely. However, many of those who did not apply for visas were later targeted by immigration laws that were meant to make the country a “hostile environment” for illegal immigrants.

Many people lost their jobs, homes, health care, pensions, and other benefits because they couldn’t find their papers. Others were arrested or sent back to the Caribbean.

Five years after the story made people angry, many people who were hurt are still waiting for the promised money.

But the scandal that broke out in 2018 is still hurting the people who are still alive from the Windrush generation and their children.