Buckingham Palace is disappointed with The Sun for releasing footage of then seven-year-old princess, Queen Elizabeth doing a Nazi salute with her family, Metro UK reports.

"It is disappointing that film, shot eight decades ago and apparently from her Majesty's personal family archive, has been obtained and exploited in this manner," the palace released in a statement.

The video showed little Elizabeth with her Queen Mother, three-year-old Princess Margaret, and Uncle Edward VIII playing around on the lawn and doing the controversial salute. This was shot in 1933, the time German dictator Adolf Hitler claimed power in Germany.

"THE Queen and Queen Mum raise a Nazi salute in an astonishing home movie shot at Balmoral and seen today for the first time," The Sun reported.

The black and white video was believed to be shot by King George VI, the Queen's father at the family's Balmoral estate in Scotland.

Other people reacted to the release of the footage in defense of the 89-year-old monarch.

"'They are all having a laugh, there are lots of smiles, so it's all a big joke', military historian James Holland told The Sun. "I don't think there was a child in Britain in the 1930s or 40s who has not performed a mock Nazi salute as a bit of a lark. It just shows the Royal Family are as human as the next man"

Labour MP Barbara Keeley also spoke about the outrageous release tweeting, "Hey @TheSun, if you want to stir up some moral outrage about a misjudgement in history, look a bit closer to home."

Buckingham Palace accused The Sun for exploiting the video from the Royal family's archive and has called for investigation on how the video was acquired on Sunday.

According to Daily Telegraph, this footage was given by the palace to filmmakers who are planning to produce a documentary about the Royal childhood.