It does not happen every day to look at the news and see pictures of the Queen of England, who likes to wear fancy coloured hats and speak incredibly posh English, performing Nazi salutes in black and white videos.
Queen of england performs nazi salutes
One of Britain’s leading Tabloids “The Sun” published leaked images of the future queen raising her arm in the style of the German Nazis. The black and white footage shows the future Queen of England, aged six or seven, together with her sister Margaret, joining the Queen Mother and Prince Edward.
The same Prince Edward who appears in the footage, later became King Edward VIII and faced more than one change for being a Nazi sympathiser. Edward and his wife, the American Wallis Simpson, were spotted in October 1937 meeting Adolf Hitler, just two weeks before the start of the Second World War.
A matter of “historical significance”?
The editor of the tabloid which published the pictures,“The Sun,” Stig Abell, defended the publication’s decision to release the footage, shot either in 1933 or 1934, emphasising that the queen performing a nazi salute is a matter of “historical significance”.
Speaking to the BBC he said: “I think the justification is relatively evident – it’s a matter of national historical significance to explore what was going on in the thirties ahead of the second world war.”
The paper used the pun “Their Royal Heilness” as their cover title this morning.
”Misleading and disonest”
Buckingham Palace, despite not responding frequently to these type of news, said that it was “disappointing” that the film, which was shot eighty years ago, had been “exploited” in such ways. +
Through an official statement, the Palace dismissed the footage as a mere “family game” stressing the fact that by the time it was shot, nobody had any idea of how Nazi power would evolve through time.
According to an official source from Buckingham Palace: “Most people will see these pictures in their proper context and time. This is a family playing and momentarily referencing a gesture many would have seen from contemporary news reels. No one at that time had any sense how it would evolve. To imply anything else is misleading and dishonest.”
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Leaked Pictures Show Queen of England Performing Nazi Salute
