'The Sun has sunk to a new low': British public reacts with fury after tabloid publishes 80-year-old pictures of the seven-year-old Queen and the Queen Mother being taught a Nazi salute
'The Sun has sunk to a new low': British public reacts with fury after tabloid publishes 80-year-old pictures of the seven-year-old Queen and the Queen Mother being taught a Nazi salute 'The Sun has sunk to a new low': British public reacts with fury after tabloid publishes 80-year-old pictures of the seven-year-old Queen and the Queen Mother being taught a Nazi salute
The British public has reacted with fury after footage of the Queen performing a Nazi salute as a young girl was published by The Sun. Video After Cut...
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The shocking film from 1933 shows Edward VIII teaching his nieces the seven-year-old future Queen and her three-year-old sister Princess Margaret how to do the salute in the gardens at Balmoral.
The publication of the 17-second film has outraged thousands across 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 Sun for the publication of the footage, from the family's private archive, saying it was 'disappointing' that the film had been 'obtained and exploited in this manner'.
Nazi salute: A grainy photograph has emerged of the Queen performing a Nazi salute with her family in the gardens at Balmoral
Outrage: The shocking 17-second clip of the Royal family playing on the lawns at Balmoral, shows Edward VIII (right), the Queen Mother (left), Queen Elizabeth (centre left) aged seven, and her three year old sister Princess Margaret (centre right) performing the salute
Sieg heil: The footage, released by The Sun, is sure to cause outrage across the country, but a Buckingham Palace spokesman has slammed the 'exploitation' of the film
Appalled reader Rachel Hawkins wrote: 'If I was the Queen, I'd ban that absolute vile individual; Rupert Murdoch from ever entering this country again. #TheSun #gutterpress.'
Another user said: 'The Sun has sunk to a new low in insinuating that the Queen has Nazi sympathy's with the head line "Their Royal Heilnesses."'.
Others said the footage had been taken out of context, with Josh Cook tweeting: 'horrible journalism, pre world war 2, before anybody knew anything about nazi behaviour.'
Angela Jariwala added: '@TheSun Great! Enough bloody hatred in the world and you go and use this picture to incite more of it. Cheers.'
Columnist Hugo Rifkind tweeted: 'I suppose there's always a chance that Queen Elizabeth II hadn't really thought her politics through when she was 7?'
Labour MP Barbara Keeley retweeted a message which said: 'Hey @TheSun, if you want to stir up some moral outrage about a misjudgement in history, look a bit closer to home.'
The tweet included an image of The Sun's controversial 1989 front page which criticised Liverpool fans during the Hillsborough disaster.
Youngsters: Many argue that the future Queen and her sister Margaret can not be held responsible for their actions, as they were simply children playing with their family
Controversy: Edward VIII was a known Nazi sympathiser, and once described Hitler as 'not a bad chap'
Salute: The Nazi salute became a symbol of fear across Europe after the rise of Hitler. But at the time the footage was taken there was not 'a child in Britain in the 1930s or 40s' who had not 'performed a mock Nazi salute as a bit of a lark', according to historian James Holland
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Archive footage shows young Queen being taught Nazi salute by Edward VIII and the Queen Mother in 1933 Palace fury as pictures emerge after 80 years of the seven-year-old Queen and the Queen Mother being taught a Nazi salute by Edward VIII in private film at Balmoral Footage has emerged of the Queen being taught a Nazi salute by Edward VIII The 1933 photo shows Edward VIII and the girls saluting at Balmoral The Queen Mother is also in the photograph, taken as Hitler rose to power Buckingham Palace has slammed The Suns exploitation of the footage Bucking
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