France denies snubbing Queen over D-Day

May 27th, 2009 - Reuters

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France denies snubbing Queen over D-Day - Reuters UK

PARIS (Reuters) - France denied on Wednesday that it had snubbed the Queen after Britain said she had not been invited to a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

U.S. President Barack Obama will be in France on June 6 as a guest of President Nicolas Sarkozy to commemorate the 1944 invasion by American, British and Commonwealth troops that broke Germany's hold on France in World War Two.

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