So that won’t be Sir RupertTHE tabloid Sun newspaper, owned by Rupert Murdoch, has form when it comes to tweaking the noses of the royal family. On July 18th, however, the paper surpassed itself by publishing a film clip that showed the queen as a seven-year-old girl apparently giving the Nazi salute, egged on by her mother and uncle Edward, who was briefly king before he abdicated over his wish to marry the divorced Wallis Simpson.
Her majesty’s more loyal subjects were outraged, and Buckingham Palace instigated an inquiry into how the Sun got hold of the 1933 home movie. The paper, meanwhile, pointed to the public interest in further exposing the nefarious ways of Edward VIII, a known Nazi sympathiser, who does indeed seem to be orchestrating the little family hand-stretching routine at Balmoral.
The queen herself has scarcely been ruffled by the brouhaha. Historians have queued up to exonerate her. She was too young to know better, let alone gainsay her wicked uncle. And anyway at this time Hitler was still a bit of a Chaplinesque joke in Britain, so the...Continue reading
via Brian Rushton, Royally embarrassed
No comments:
Post a Comment