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Should Newspapers Print Pictures Of The Queen Giving Nazis Salute?

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Gromit | 06:30 Sat 18th Jul 2015 | News
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Some down market newspapers today have printed photographs of the Queen, aged 7 years old, practising the Nazi salute, in the gardens of Buckingham Palace.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/queen-elizabeth-II/11748024/Buckingham-Palace-disappointed-at-1933-footage-released-by-The-Sun.html

Is there a public interest justification for printing the pictures?

Or is it disrespectful to her majesty?
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Surely engineered and published to bring unneccesary distress to the poor Queen in her 90th year. Disgraceful. The Sun should be sued for receiving/publishing stolen material. Just a childish action that has been done over the years - how many children have put their finger across their top lip to look like a moustache and raised their arm and said Heil...
08:56 Sat 18th Jul 2015
Words speak louder than actions? Sells a lot more newspapers...
I agree a fuss over nothing. The antics of the Windsors nowadays are about on par with the antics of the Kardashians.
Bring back Fergie!
And if "public interest" as opposed to the public being interested was a hard & fast criteria then most popular newspapers would be near empty.
Hey on a royal note but slightly different....

DM I think - Prince George - reads a headline - takes after his naughty Daddy.

well ! so long as he doesnt take after his naughty grandmother it will be OK ....
The Sun are just sponging off the readers.
It has done exactly what it was intended to do. Push up sales of The Sun and so increase it's advertising revenue, which is based on sales.
Only since the advent of potty political correctness have people tended to bristle at the slightest perceived indiscretion - in fact many seem to actively seek out reasons to bristle and spend much of their lives in full bristle mode. Sqad has told us that //In the 30's and 40's all kids did the " Nazi Salute" and shout " Heil Hitler."// and as Zacs said, Freddie Starr made a career out the the Nazi salute. I don’t think it did the fortunes of the cast of ‘Allo Allo’ any harm either. Treading on eggshells is now de rigueur.
Freddie Star and the cast of ‘Allo Allo’ were mocking and Star did not make a living doing it, he had more to his act than that.

Eddie wasn't mocking so I doubt the Queen to be was (granted she was only a child) perhaps Eddie was trying a bit of indoctrination on her?
An engineered fuss about nothing by the newspaper concerned.
The Queen was a little girl, for goodness sake.

Gromit

I thought it strange when I read your opening passage to this thread.

Gromit a known anti-British, anti Royalty ABer, seemingly being sympathetic to her majesty, but then his true feelings finely came out..

/// Edward VIII'A Nazi sympathies have been well known for decades.
So the interpretation that this was mockery of Hitler is somewhat kind.
I doubt it was mockery. ///

Surely this is just another 'non-story' as you often accuse some other's post as being?
Are you saying Eddie did not have nazi sympathies. AOG?
Was the question too difficult AOG?
Surely engineered and published to bring unneccesary distress to the poor Queen in her 90th year. Disgraceful. The Sun should be sued for receiving/publishing stolen material.
Just a childish action that has been done over the years - how many children have put their finger across their top lip to look like a moustache and raised their arm and said Heil Hitler - just in mockery of the evil man?
A non story. Get a life. Acting for the known Hitler sympathiser. Children did as they were told in that era
Our very own child princess god bless her majesty was playing up to the camera, I personally think it's a laff a minute
Word for today (or toady): Obsequious
How about the Queen Mother?

Is she doing as she was told?

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