The Brits are PISSED! Footage of a seven year-old Elizabeth performing a Nazi salute were just published by The Sun. The images are taken from a rather shocking film from 1933 that shows Edward VIII teaching his nieces the seven-year-old future Queen Elizabeth and her three-year-old sister Princess Margaret how to do the “Heil, Hilter!” salute in the gardens at Balmoral Castle. The publication of the 17-second film has outraged the nation who believe that the Queen cannot be held responsible for her actions as a girl playing with her family. Scores of Twitter users vented their anger this morning, saying The Sun had ‘sunk to a new low’ and calling for the newspaper’s owner Rupert Murdoch to be banned from the UK. Buckingham Palace last night slammed the publication for using he footage, from the family’s private archive, saying it was
“disappointing” that the film had been “obtained and exploited in this manner.”
The film shows the late Queen Mother saluting proudly, encouraged by Edward VIII, who is known to have harboured Nazi sympathies. This happened in 1933 just as Hitler was rising to power in Germany, seven years before the outbreak of the WWII and before the atrocities of the Third Reich terrorised Europe. At the age of seven, the Queen would not have understood the implications of making a Nazi salute. Royal commentator and the Queen’s former press secretary Dickie Arbiter said there would be great interest in royal circles in finding out how the footage from the monarch’s private archives was made public;
“I would like to think it was released inadvertently as a bit of harmless 1933 footage without anybody really knowing what was on it. I think what they (Buckingham Palace) would probably like to know is where it came from and who gave it to The Sun.”
Watch.
(via Daily Mail)
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