Secret 1933 Film Shows Edward VIII Teaching Nazi Salute to Queen Elizabeth

This is a huge story across the pond.

At the Sun UK, "Their Royal Heilnesses":

THE Queen and Queen Mum raise a Nazi salute in an astonishing home movie shot at Balmoral and seen today for the first time.

The film shows the then Princess Elizabeth, just seven, larking about in 1933....

Experts last night hailed the footage as an incredible new historical document of huge public interest.

RTWT.

WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Secret 1933 film shows Edward VIII teaching Nazi salute to Queen. See it FREE http://t.co/mDtqvsTpsC pic.twitter.com/k36Qe4DLrX

— The Sun (@TheSun) July 19, 2015

Some context on Edward VIII and his Nazi sympathies. http://t.co/f1cpoFLP5f pic.twitter.com/F0j03AArMl

— Stig Abell (@StigAbell) July 17, 2015

@chrisdeerin @holysmoke No it isn't. It's a legitimate piece of social history, which we have contextualised at length.

— Stig Abell (@StigAbell) July 17, 2015

.@StigAbell congratulations. World-beating public interest journalism.

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) July 17, 2015

There is no paper in England who would not have published that. End of. Historic moment.

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) July 17, 2015

Watch the video here.

And a bit of the reaction, at London's Daily Mail, "'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."

More at the Telegraph UK, "Hunt for source of leaked Nazi salute footage: Palace opens investigation as it accuses The Sun of 'exploiting’ the Queen and the memory of her family."

And at the Guardian UK, "Royals told: open archives on family ties to Nazi regime - Historian urges that secret correspondence be made public to reveal the truth after Queen’s Nazi salute footage released."

Also, "Fascism, abdication and war: the story of a turbulent era: As Germany fell into the grip of fascism in the 1920s and 30s, the British royal family was facing its own crisis, and the lure of totalitarianism was spreading through the highest levels of British society."

And commentary, from Bella Bathurst, "If the royals were an ordinary family, the Nazi salute video wouldn’t matter. But they’re not," and "Karina Urbach, "Behind the infant Queen’s gesture lies a dark history of aristocratic Nazi links."