Controversial comedian Russell Brand (pictured) posted the expletive-laden diatribe on his social media accounts on Monday where he branded the Queen 'Mrs Bratwurst-Kraut-Nazi'

Comedian Russell Brand has caused outrage after he called the Queen a 'Kraut Nazi' days after footage of the monarch giving the Hitler salute as a child was leaked.

The controversial millionaire comic posted the expletive-laden diatribe, an extract from his book Revolution, on his Facebook account on Monday in an apparent attempt to promote it following the video leak.

But the 40-year-old's tirade about the Queen's German heritage did not go down well with fans, many of whom told him to 'leave her alone' and branded him a 'hypocrite'.

In the online rant the self-styled anti-capitalist revolutionary rails against the 'class pyramid' the Queen is 'at the top of' and slams the tradition of addressing her as 'Your Majesty', before calling her 'Mrs Bratwurst-Kraut-Nazi'.

He wrote: 'I mean in England we have a Queen for f***'s sake. We have to call her things like 'Your Majesty' like she's all majestic. She's just a person.

'Your Highness'! What the f*** is that? What, she's high up, above us, at the top of a class pyramid on a shelf of money with her own face on it.

He wrote: 'We should be calling her Mrs Windsor. In fact that's not even her real name, they changed it in the war to distract us from the inconvenient fact that they were as German as the enemy that teenage boys were being encouraged, conscripted actually, to die fighting.

'Her actual name is Mrs Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

'It's the most German thing I've ever heard - she might've well as been called "Mrs Bratwurst-Kraut-Nazi."'

But fans were less than impressed with the tirade against the monarch, with many pointing out the hypocrisy of ranting about a 'class pyramid' when Brand is a millionaire.

One wrote: 'You've done enough in your past that is beyond acceptable and explainable, while you were an accountable adult. Stop talking rubbish and getting your facts wrong. You're making a fool of yourself!'

Another commented: 'An unfunny, washed up hypocrite desperately trying to cling to his 15 minutes of fame.'

One fan wrote: 'Disappointing rant, Russell. The present Queen was born 'Windsor' the family's change of name having occurred decades before she was born. And calling her 'your Royal Highness' or 'Majesty' seems like a small price to pay for her hard work on all our behalf.'

A disgusted fan said: 'You can love or hate the monarchy but don't make out the Queen is a bad person.'

Another said: 'I was totally with you Russell until the Nazi name calling at the end and then you kind of lost the upper moral hand.'

And one posted a picture of a beaming Brand shaking hands with the Queen with the message: 'So..tell you what... I dare you to say all this to her face the next time you bow and shake her hand with that plum puddin grin you had all over your face.'

But the tirade did not go down too well with fans, many of whom told him to 'leave the Queen alone'

Brand's rant comes just days after The Sun released footage of the Queen as a child giving a Nazi salute

Brand's rant comes just days after The Sun released footage of the Queen as a child giving a Nazi salute.

The film shows the seven-year-old future Queen and her three-year-old sister Princess Margaret doing the salute in the gardens at Balmoral in 1933.

They are encouraged by Edward VIII, who is known to have harboured Nazi sympathies. The Queen Mother, who died in 2002 aged 101, is also saluting in the clip.

The grainy black-and-white photograph, which was published by The Sun over the weekend, was taken just as Hitler was rising to power in Germany, seven years before the outbreak of the Second World War.

COMEDIAN'S BIZARRE RANT I mean in England we have a Queen for f***'s sake. A Queen! We have to call her things like 'Your Majesty' YOUR MAJESTY! Like she's all majestic, like an eagle or a mountain. She's just a person. A little old lady in a shiny hat – that we paid for. Or 'Your Highness'! What the f*** is that?! What, she's high up, above us, at the top of a class pyramid on a shelf of money with her own face on it. We should be calling her Mrs Windsor. In fact that's not even her real name, they changed it in the war to distract us from the inconvenient fact that they were as German as the enemy that teenage boys were being encouraged, conscripted actually, to die fighting. Her actual name is Mrs Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. 'Mrs Saxe-Coburg-Gotha'!! No wonder they f***** changed it. It's the most German thing I've ever heard – she might've well as been called 'Mrs Bratwurst-Kraut-Nazi'. - from REVOLUTION Advertisement

The Nazi salute subsequently became a symbol of fear across Europe, but in the years leading up to the Second World War it did not have the universally recognised connotations that it has today.

At the age of seven, the Queen is unlikely to have understood the full the implications of making a Nazi salute.

A spokesman for Buckingham Palace said: 'There is an inquiry going on to find the source of the footage and until that inquiry is completed we would not give out any further information.'

The rant is just the latest in a series of escapades for Brand.

Last week he accused a fan at one of his stand up gigs a 'Nazi' before discovering he was actually Jewish.

The star saw the fan raise his hand and suggested it was so straight it looked like a Hitler salute

He said: 'Yes, the young Nazi in the back row' to which the unnamed man yelled back: 'I'm Jewish!'

Brand instantly apologised saying: 'It was insensitive and anti-Semitic', according to the Daily Star.

The Nazi gaffe was just another in a series of controversial moments for the star, whose comments continue to spark outrage.

Earlier this month he labelled a minute's silence for the victims of the Tunisia beach massacre 'total bullsh*t'.

And Nazi jokes have also got him in trouble in the past, famously while accepting an award at the GQ Men Of The Year Awards sponsored by Hugo Boss in 2013.

The comic, who was allegedly thrown out from the after-show party after he made the jibes, said his jokes were 'not intended to herald a campaign to destroy' the fashion firm.