French D-Day surrender: Sarkozy makes U-turn and says Queen IS welcome at 65th anniversary | Mail Online
French D-Day surrender: Sarkozy makes U-turn and says Queen IS welcome at 65th anniversary
Well, it is the Wail.
The French bowed to British anger yesterday over their failure to invite the Queen to next week's D-Day events.
After an outcry revealed in yesterday's Daily Mail, they announced that she was 'welcome' after all at the 65th anniversary.
It was a dramatic U-turn by the French, who only hours before had been insisting that they had never planned to invite any members of the Royal Family.
But with only nine days to go, it was unclear whether any of them would be able to attend.
The statement that the Queen was ' naturally welcome in her capacity as head of the British state' fell short of a formal invitation, posing a continuing problem for Buckingham Palace officials who say they cannot act without one.
In any case, they normally take up to six months to prepare for such an event abroad, with every detail of the schedule, security and official protocol worked out.
deifpi. Well said, Sir. We, as a Nation, are only too aware that Governments are not always representative of the people who elect them.