Video of 7-Year-Old Queen Elizabeth's Nazi Salute Is a Royal Shitshow
In Depth
That dull roar audible all weekend was the sound of the United Kingdom’s national press, freaking the fuck out over some leaked footage of a 7-year-old Queen Elizabeth seemingly giving a Nazi salute.
It all started when the tabloid Sun published a home video, shot at Balmoral circa 1933 or ‘34, showing seven-year-old Elizabeth apparently trying out the Nazi salute while Prince Edward watches on. Her mother then joins in, with what looks to be one of her own. The headline: “Their Royal Heilnesses.”
Obviously, this denoted in the news cycle with the force of a proverbial hydrogen bomb.