‘No invitation’ means Queen will not attend D-Day events

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Prime Minister Gordon Brown will represent Britain at events in Normandy on 6 June to mark the 65th anniversary of the landings but neither the Queen nor any other royal will be present because they have not been invited.

British Normandy veterans criticised the absence of the Queen from the guest list for the commemorations. But French officials insisted she was welcome and blamed the UK Government for deciding who should attend what they said was "primarily a Franco-American ceremony".

A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said: "Neither the Queen nor any other members of the royal family will be attending as we have not received an official invitation.

"We would like to reiterate that we have never expressed any sense of anger or frustration at all, and are content with all the arrangements that are planned."

US President Barack Obama will join French president Nicolas Sarkozy for next week's commemorations.