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| Queen 'Nazi salute' film: Palace 'disappointed' at use | Queen 'Nazi salute' film: Palace 'disappointed' at use |
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| Buckingham Palace has said it is disappointed that footage from 1933 showing the Queen appearing to perform a Nazi salute has been released. | |
| The film, released by the Sun, shows the Queen, aged about seven, alongside her mother, sister and uncle. | The film, released by the Sun, shows the Queen, aged about seven, alongside her mother, sister and uncle. |
| Neither how the newspaper obtained the footage nor the circumstances in which it was originally made are clear. | Neither how the newspaper obtained the footage nor the circumstances in which it was originally made are clear. |
| The palace said it was "disappointing that film, shot eight decades ago... has been obtained and exploited." | The palace said it was "disappointing that film, shot eight decades ago... has been obtained and exploited." |
| 'Misleading and dishonest' | |
| The black and white footage, which lasts about 17 seconds, shows the Queen playing with a dog on the lawn in the gardens of Balmoral, the Sun says. | |
| The Queen Mother then raises her arm in what looks like a Nazi salute, and after glancing towards her mother the Queen mimics the gesture. Prince Edward, the future Edward VIII, is also seen raising his arm. | The Queen Mother then raises her arm in what looks like a Nazi salute, and after glancing towards her mother the Queen mimics the gesture. Prince Edward, the future Edward VIII, is also seen raising his arm. |
| The footage is thought to have been shot in 1933 or 1934, when Hitler was rising to prominence as Fuhrer in Germany. | |
| A Palace source said: "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. | A Palace source said: "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." | "No one at that time had any sense how it would evolve. To imply anything else is misleading and dishonest." |
| 'Fascinating insight' | |
| The source added: "The Queen and her family's service and dedication to the welfare of this nation during the war, and the 63 years the Queen has spent building relations between nations and peoples speaks for itself." | The source added: "The Queen and her family's service and dedication to the welfare of this nation during the war, and the 63 years the Queen has spent building relations between nations and peoples speaks for itself." |
| In its editorial column the Sun said it had decided to publish the footage because it was of great public importance and the involvement of Prince Edward gave it "historical significance". | |
| The then Prince of Wales faced numerous accusations of being a Nazi sympathiser and was photographed meeting Hitler in Munich in October 1937. | |
| The newspaper said: "These images have lain hidden for 82 years. We publish them today, knowing they do not reflect badly on our Queen, her late sister or mother in any way. | |
| "They do, however, provide a fascinating insight into the warped prejudices of Edward VIII and his friends in that bleak, paranoid, tumultuous decade." | |
| The Queen was 13 when World War Two broke out and she later served in the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service. | |
| In June she made her first state visit to Germany where she visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and met some of the survivors and liberators. |