PARACULTURAL CALENDAR FOR JULY 17

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

On 18.07.2015 05:26, Mark Thibodeau wrote:

>
> On this day in *1917*, England's *King George V* issues a Proclamation 
> stating that the male
> line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname 
> *Windsor*. This is done to
> remove the Teutonic stink from their "royal house", due to rising 
> anti-German sentiment over
> the First (and eventually, the Second) World War(s).
>

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/royals/6548665/Their-Royal-Heilnesses.html

 > 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.

Egging on her sister Princess Margaret, three, is their uncle Prince 
Edward, Prince of Wales. He was a sympathiser towards Hitler’s Nazi 
Germany and became King Edward VIII.

The stunning film footage of the Queen performing a Nazi salute is today 
revealed by The Sun.

The astonishing clip lay hidden for eight decades. The grainy home movie 
is thought to have been shot in 1933 or 1934, as Hitler rose to supreme 
power in Germany.

The 20-second cine film reveals Edward, who once gave a Nazi salute to 
Hitler and claimed he was “not a bad chap”, larking around with his 
sister-in-law the Queen Mother and her young children in the grounds of 
Balmoral.

The Queen, in tartan kilt or skirt, is aged around seven while Margaret 
is three. The clip opens with a playful Elizabeth grabbing one of the 
royal corgis and pushing the dog across the lawn.

Facing the camera, she raises her arm in a Nazi salute. Margaret lifts a 
hand — her left, in a playful wave.

Elizabeth performs a Scottish jig then raises her right arm again, 
joining in with the Queen Mum as they both stand bolt upright with right 
arms hoisted.

Encouraged by Uncle Edward, Margaret raises her arms again before the 
clip ends with the Queen Mum and Edward saluting with their right arms. <



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