On the air of the 60 Minutes program on the Russia 1 channel, they showed a video in which, allegedly, Queen Elizabeth II of Britain, in her youth, throws food to African children right on the ground, and they pick it up. In fact, the propagandists lied, showing the work of the French film director Francois Veyre in 1899 – that is, the picture was taken 27 years before the birth of the queen.
The video was also distributed on Facebook and Twitter, signing it as frames with Elizabeth II, but some users drew attention to the fact that this was a fake. The Catalog Lumière website published a frame from material shot by Weyer in the Annam protectorate during the French colonization of Indochina (now the territory of Vietnam). The footage shows two women (wife and daughter of Governor-General Paul Doumer, who went on to become President of France 1931–1932) throwing money at local children.
Propagandist Olga Skabeeva in the program decided to tell the Russians that the footage allegedly shows Elizabeth II in her youth. According to her, Africans "will not mourn" the death of the queen, because for them it is "a reminder of oppression and slavery."
“To understand what Elizabeth was like. Pictured is the queen as a young woman. This is how she fed the children from among the enslaved peoples of Africa. Look at this kindness, like animals in a zoo. This video embodies the attitude of the West, in particular, the Anglo-Saxons, to everyone in the world except themselves, ”the propagandist comments, while a film shot decades before the birth of the queen is shown in the studio.
Before the fake Queen was shown on Russian television, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Elizabeth II fought in the ranks of the therodefense against the "Nazis". So she commented on the information that the British Foreign Office refused to invite a delegation from Russia with Vladimir Putin to mourning events in connection with the death of the queen due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. The comment also refers to Britain's "deeply immoral" attempt to exploit a national tragedy.
“This is especially blasphemous to the memory of Elizabeth II, who, as you know, served during the Second World War in the ranks of the territorial defense of the British armed forces, who fought against the Nazis and their Ukrainian accomplices – S. Bandera and R. Shukhevych.”
According to Zakharova, the British elites are "on their side", while Moscow "remembers and continues to honor the memory of all veterans." The representative of the department stressed that "the unifying image of Queen Elizabeth II" did not become an obstacle to the "attacks of London."
