UK Newspaper Publishes Image of Queen Elizabeth Giving Nazi Salute, Sparks Outrage

The Sun newspaper has sparked a furore in Britain after it released an 80 year old footage of Queen Elizabeth II -- then a young girl -- giving a Nazi salute as she played with her family. See the video after the cut.

The shocking film from 1933 when the future queen was only about six years old and as Adolf Hitler was rising to power in Germany, shows Edward VIII teaching his nieces the future Queen and her three-year-old sister Princess Margaret how to do the salute in the gardens at Balmoral.

Buckingham Palace responded angrily to the newspaper's decision to publish the private family while
outraged thousands across the nation said the Queen cannot be held responsible for her actions as a girl playing with her family. A Buckingham Palace spokesman said:

"It is disappointing that film, shot eight decades ago and apparently from (Her Majesty's) personal family archive, has been obtained and exploited in this manner."

The Sun, Britain's best-selling tabloid newspaper, published a still image taken from the footage -- showing Elizabeth alongside her mother, sister Princess Margaret and her uncle, who would later be crowned Edward VIII -- on its front page with the headline, "Their royal heilnesses."