英女王 '纳粹敬礼' 视频曝光 白金汉宫 '失望'

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BBC Chinese, July 18, 2015.
http://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp ... 18_queen_nazi_video

which is based on

Tom Morgan and Jonathan Reilly, Their Royal Heilnesses; Secret 1933 film shows Edward VIII teaching this Nazi salute to the Queen. The Sun, July 18, 2015
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/home ... yal-Heilnesses.html

Note:
(a) In the newspaper cover of The Sun, HEIL is printed red  while the rest (all upper case) of the headline is black. It is because “heil” is German (where “ei: is rhymed with English adjective “high”), not English.
(i) Nazi salute
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_salute
(Usually, the person offering the salute would say "Heil Hitler!" (Hail Hitler!), "Heil, mein Führer!" (Hail, my leader!), or "Sieg heil!" (Hail victory!))
(ii) German English dictionary
* Sieg (noun masculine): “victory”
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sieg#German
* Heil (noun neuter) “luck, health [actually well-being, as in wish someone ~]; salvation [as in seek one's salvation in sth]
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Heil

(b) "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."
(i) Edward VIII
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VIII
(1894 – 1972; reign 1936-1936 abdicated; eldest son of King George V [whom he succeeded]; was succeeded by his younger brother Albert, who chose the regnal name George VI; With a reign of 326 days, Edward was one of the shortest-reigning monarchs in British history; After his abdication, he was created Duke of Windsor; section 4 Romances)
(ii)
(A) George VI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_VI
(birth name: Albert Frederick Arthur George [no last name]; 1895 – 1952; reign 1936-1952; married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1923 and they had two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret)

He was the second son of George V.
(B) The King's Speech
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King's_Speech
(a 2010 British film; Colin Firth plays King George VI who, to cope with a stammer, sees Lionel Logue, an Australian speech and language therapist)
(iii) The Sun (United Kingdom)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_(United_Kingdom)

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(c) "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."

Balmoral Castle
(i) Balmoral Castle; Visitors guide and information about Balmoral Castle Aberdeenshire in Scotland and its history with photographs/ About Aberdeen, undated
www.aboutaberdeen.com/balmoral_castle_scotland.php
("The name is taken from the Gaelic meaning Majestic Residence")
(ii) About Balmoral; The history of the Scottish holiday home to the Royal Family.
http://www.balmoralcastle.com/about.htm
(Prince Albert and Queen Victoria purchased the old castle in 1848, sight unseen; the couple built a new castle 100 yards from the old castle, and then demolished the old castle once the new one was completed)
(iii) Balmoral Castle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balmoral_Castle
(the estate and its original castle were purchased privately by Prince Albert, consort to Queen Victoria. They remain as the private property of the royal family and are not the property of the Crown"/ The castle is an example of Scots Baronial architecture)
(iv) The estate is by
River Dee (Aberdeenshire)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Dee_(Aberdeenshire)
(The name is attested as early as the second century AD in the work of the Alexandrian [in Egypt] geographer Claudius Ptolemy, as Δηοῦα (=Deva), meaning 'Goddess')

There is no need to read the rest of the Wiki page.


(d) “The clip opens with a playful Elizabeth grabbing one of the royal corgis and pushing the dog across the lawn.”
(i) Welsh corgi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Corgi
(The corgi's origin is difficult to trace)
(ii)
(A) corgi (n; plural corgis; etymology: Welsh, from cor dwarf + ci dog; First Known Use 1926): "WELSH CORGI"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/corgi
(B) Welsh corgi (n): "a short-legged long-backed dog with foxy head of either of two breeds of Welsh origin: [Cardigan and Pembroke]"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/welsh%20corgi

(e) “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.”
(i) jig
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jig
(developed in 16th-century England; The term jig was probably derived from the French giguer, meaning 'to jump' or the Italian giga; section 2 Ireland and Scotland)
(ii) bolt (adv; Old English bolt arrow): “stiffly, firmly, or rigidly (archaic except in the phrase bolt upright)”
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/bolt

(f) “Dr Karina Urbach [of University of London] * * * said: ‘The video is pretty shocking. The Queen has a proud Second World War record and sense of duty to her country and no one would ever suggest she was sympathetic to Nazi Germany.[‘] * * * The [home-made] film is even more remarkable as — just seven years after it was made — George VI and Queen Elizabeth became inspirational figures of wartime defiance after visiting bombed-out Londoners during the Blitz of 1940. * * * At the time the future Queen Elizabeth, now 89, would have had no inkling of the implications of making a Nazi salute.”

There are three mentions of “Queen” in this quotation.
(i) The first two refers to what is now named “Queen Mother” (or “Queen Mum”)--the future consort of George VI.  See (b)(ii)(A) for her name. See Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_The_Queen_Mother
(1900 –  2002)
(ii) The third “Queen” is the reigning monarch, who was just a child in 1933.