Before we all start thumping our respective tubs from our own particular moral or historical viewpoint, it might be as well to remember that the object under scrutiny is a photograph of members of the then monarchy laughing and giving a Nazi salute.

That evidence alone proves absolutely nothing about allegiances one way or the other. They may have been doing it with admiration - or they may have been doing it in derision - or they may just have been having a laugh. Trust the Sun to raise its readership to publish a photograph of a child doing such a thing stir a little shit and sell some more papers.

I have no brief for the Royal Family, but I know that I don't really care what their affiliations and attitudes were back in the 1930s - and I certainly won't be contributing to any debate, one way or the other, by the amateur historians of Mudcat.