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President Barack Obama is due to attend the event to mark the 65th anniversary of the Normandy landings, but the British head of state will not having failed to receive an invite.

Asked about the apparent snub, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs indicated that pressure was being put on the French to rectify the situation.

"We are working with those involved to see that it happens," he said in reference to the Queen's attendance.

Buckingham Palace has previously ruled out the Queen attending the official D-Day commemorations after it emerged that neither she nor any other member of the Royal family had been invited.

Instead Prime Minister Gordon Brown will represent the UK alongside British veterans who took part in the 1944 invasion that helped defeat Hitler's Germany.

The absence of the Queen from the guest list for this year's D-Day commemorations has been perceived by some as a deliberate snub by the French authorities. Some commentators suggested that French president Nicolas Sarkozy is primarily interested in hosting the visiting President Obama.

Officials in Paris have insisted that the Queen is welcome. They blame the UK Government for deciding who should attend what they said was "primarily a Franco-American ceremony". French government spokesman Luc Chatel said pointedly: "It is not up to France to determine the British representation."

But Buckingham Palace made it clear on Monday that the Queen would not be attending the events in Normandy, while stressing that she was not upset about the situation.

A spokeswoman said: "Neither the Queen nor any other members of the royal family will be attending the D-Day commemorations on June 6 as we have not received an official invitation to any of these events. 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."