It’s a home movie the British Royal Family would rather have kept under wraps. Shot in 1933, the reel shows Queen Elizabeth performing a Nazi Salute as a child.<br /><br /> Buckingham Palace has blasted the release of the footage saying it was disappointed that a film shot eight decades ago was obtained and exploited in this fashion.<br /><br /> A palace source said that most people would recognise the context saying this is a family playing and momentarily referencing a gesture many would have seen in contemporary news reels.<br /><br /> However, the editor of tabloid newspaper The Sun, Stig Abell, who was behind the release defended the decision.<br /><br /> “The Sun starts from the position, a relatively purist position, that it is in the public and national interest to reveal what is a document, a piece of footage of historical and cultural significance.”<br /><br /> The Sun said that the emphasis was not on the child who would become queen but her uncle, King Edward VIII who later abdicated to marry socialite Wallis Simpson. Both
