By Archit Mehta

The UK’s longest-serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, passed away last week. In the backdrop of this, a clip of Jawaharlal Nehru at a public event is being shared on social media with a claim that Nehru “took the citizenship of London in 1956″ as a hallmark of his loyalty to the Queen.

In the video we hear a man felicitating Nehru saying,”It is my privilege as Chamberlain of this city to offer you both the right hand of fellowship and greet you, Mr Nehru, as a citizen of London.”

Twitter user @TheRudra1008 shared this clip along with the claim. The video gained over 40,000 views. (Archived link)

( Link https://twitter.com/TheRudra1008/status/1571506819746639873?t=qusTdJngZ3VfWBJnYRoaLg&s=19)

Verified Twitter handle Sudhir shared a different version of the same clip and wrote, “RT if they didn’t teach you this in your History lessons.” This clip has over 75,000 views. The tweet was deleted prior to the article being published. (Archived link)

Twitter user Flt Lt Anoop Verma (Retd.), who claims to be a defence analyst and political commentator, also made the same claim. (Archived link)

( Link https://twitter.com/FltLtAnoopVerma/status/1571723457083346944?t=VSYVam4jvxjSgKx09CuvhA&s=19)

Twitter user @BeingBHK also amplified this claim. This tweet gained over 800 retweets. (Archived link)

( Link https://twitter.com/BeingBHK/status/1571541183528148992?t=oKFRZbUkjhiyDMFA_rek-g&s=19)

These videos have also surfaced on YouTube Shorts and Facebook.

Using this as a clue, we performed a keyword search and found a slightly longer version of the clip on the British Pathé website. It is one of UK’s oldest newsreel archives. The clip is also available on their YouTube channel.

( Link https://youtu.be/kK4Q0F0CHx0)

The video description reads, “Two great Prime Ministers, Mr Nehru of India and Mr Holland of New Zealand, receive the Freedom of the City of London at the Guildhall.” As per the BBC, the ceremony took place on July 3, 1956.

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