The 'World Exclusive' and why the received truth is a lie (again!) but if left alone can just be accepted as the truth.

Well, here it is! The actual hard copy pulled from a British newstand, of the pages that led the British news headlines for some three days -- and probably more to come. Beautifully reproduced for the readers of MTA! You don't have to leave your laptops, it's all here, those actual photos of the young British future Queen, aged 7, her younger sister Margaret, aged 3, distinctly 'Sieg Heiling' at Balmoral in 1933 or '34, accompanied by their mother and that usual villain of the peace for his support for Hitler and Nazism, Edward, then Prince of Wales.

The accompanying text is full of the usual predictable excoriating... -- well just read "they're only larking about" ... "She's not saluting she's waving" (no, don't laugh, that was the headline of one of the following Sunday papers!)... "we all made fun of Hitler and his Charlie Chaplin mustache"... and so it went.

On que, the representatives of the "Union of the Third Reich Experts" weighed in with their chorus of excuses... well you already can guess. Tell you what -- you write it. Just think of what they usually 'write' and you'll be 'right'.

But stop. Think. Let us pause from all of this. As MTA readers know, images, the actual pure bold images, shorn of any text can be a wonderful, startling, revealing thing. We are compelled and drawn to it. Indeed, our everyday conversation draws on it... "did you see...?" or "take a look..."

So we will. These are stills from a 17 second (that's all -- I checked it out) handheld b/w home movie camera, done by... well, we don't know... and MTA readers are truly fed-up with speculation about speculation. Do they actually show the two young royals being encouraged by "Edward the Nazi lover and friend of Hitler in his monstrous quest, etc." ? They don't. They really don't. Look at the images and then look again. That elegantly attired woman is the one actually doing the perfect Nazi salute. She is seen actually wording the encouragement to her daughters -- as mothers usually do, and then that look of triumph in her face, that stance of hers, so strong, so purposeful. Meanwhile Edward fumbles around in his usual foppish manner with a limp salute as though hailing a taxi rather than hailing Hitler. So, who is this woman, and why is she not being so obviously identified as the choreographer of this flickering moment in British royal history? 'She' is Elizabeth Bowes-Lyons, Scottish aristocrat, future Queen, mother of the girls, and, looking at this footage she seems mightily pleased that Herr Hitler was installed as Chancellor of Germany on that cold winter's day in January 1933.

More than pleased, ecstatic, almost proud. Isn't that the truth of it? That the real story of this 17 second footage isn't the two little girls, isn't the foppish, dilettante Edward, but this strong, proud Nazi salute from Elizabeth, Britain's future Queen after the abdication and through the war years, whom in the depths of the conflict Hitler mused that "She was one of the most dangerous women in Europe." But we will never know. I can't pull any research rabbits out of the hat for MTA readers because -- all the Royal archives for this period are closed. They are not available to any researchers. Conspiritorial historians speak darkly about 'Box 24' in the Monkton family papers at the Bodlein Library. You know, the one marked 'Anglo-German relations', the box that was never deposited, the one no one has ever seen. Personally I would just look at the images from this footage. Look at them, closely.

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