Princess Elizabeth Windsor - Auxiliary Transport Service
Posted on 05/29/2009 12:06:24 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Queen Elizabeth II will not attend the 65th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in France, even if France extends an invitation, Buckingham Palace said.
The queen was not on the initial invitation list and palace officials say even if France issues a belated invitation to next week's ceremony in Normandy, no member of the royal family will be able to attend, The Daily Mail reported Thursday.
The government of French President Nicolas Sarkozy this week described the event as "very much a Franco-American occasion," which will be attended by U.S. President Barack Obama. The French said the commemoration would be centered on Utah and Omaha beaches, taken by U.S. troops.
The government backtracked soon after, saying the queen would be "welcome" in Normandy.
Sarkozy and Obama were born long after V-E Day. The queen, a teenager when the war began, served for months in the Auxiliary Transport Service as Elizabeth Windsor. Her husband-to-be was an officer in the Royal Navy and an uncle, the Duke of Kent, was killed in a plane crash while on active service.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is getting brickbats, the Mail said, for not making sure the queen got an invitation.
He can really be a jerk sometimes...
I guess it doesn't matter...soon it will just be the site of an important mosque...
BS. No-one "forgets" to invite other participants, certainly not the foreign office of a major nation. This is a deliberate slight and anyone who thinks otherwise is delusional. I expect nothing more from the crappauds. No invitation extended to the canucks either I see.
“very much a Franco-American occasion,”
As I remember reading, it was also British, Canadian, and Polish making an appearance at Normandy
No masjid is important..
Princess Elizabeth Windsor - Auxiliary Transport Service
You go, girl.
The French suck only slightly less than Obama himself.
However, between September, 1939 and December 6, 1941, while America had it's head firmly stuck up it's it's isolationist rectum, Great Britain was manning the ramparts of the defense of Western Civilization.
Meanwhile, France had surrendered to the Nazis and was actively hindering the liberation of Europe. During the invasion of North Africa, the first American casualties died as a result of the Vichy French.
DISCLAIMER: I am not British and my family tree has spent most of it's history fighting against the British. Be that as it may, you must give credit where credit is due.
I suppose ignoring Sword, Juno, and Gold is ok by some people.
Not with me. People paid dearly for a foothold and D-Day is for all of those soldiers.
this ain’t the first time they have insulted the UK is it? Is this the fourth?
No, but this seems to be an extremely poor venue such.
And i bet Slick Barry is just eating it up that while the Sarkozy kisses his rear, the Queen of England, who actually personally made a contribution to the WW2 effort, is being snubbed. England, which held out alone under the great Churchill, is being snubbed, and all their sacrifices dismissed. All so the French leader can make his curtsey to a small-time Chicago thug politician who got luckier than he had a right to expect. And who also never sacrificed anything for anybody, much less in a war effort on behalf of his nation (if this is his nation).
What is with formerly relatively sane people casting all tact, honor, self-respect, and everything to the winds for this joker? I may be the only one, but this is getting spookier by the day.
She’s the last of the truly admirable and noble monarchs Britain will have.
Why is it the British PM's job to make sure the French State Dept do their job?!?!?
This is all His Barackness’ doing. His Barackness doesn’t want to share the limelight with the Queen, who outranks him in every way. She actually served in WW II. His Barackness has also banned the public from all his appearances.
The only thing remotely royal about His Barckness is that he is a Royal PIA.
He will make a lame attempt to out do “These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc”,Ronald Reagan’s great speech, one of the greatest speeches ever given on the 50th anniversary of D Day.
No, you aren’t the only one. It’s jaw dropping actually to see people who would normally be considered intellegent acting like they are hypnotized zombies.
Zero AIN’T the man.
....got that straight.
The real insult will be Obama - hater of the U.S. and of all things noble and patriotic - setting foot on the hallowed ground of Normandy.
I suppose he’ll go for the photo op in the cemetery.
That will go beyond insult, all the way to outrage.
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