D-Day Controversy

Queen Elizabeth should have been invited.   It's a slap to the royal family's face.

Oh, Dear!  Some poor dufus clerk forgot to send the official invite!  I'm sure HRH Queen E will be gracious to the French when the top dog calls with his abject apologies.  Now, whether she can actually squeeze the ceremony into her busy schedule is another opportunity for a royal snub backatchya!  Maybe she should send Camilla to test the "fermented waters".  Marge in Charleston, SC

France should start to fight there own battles before they start to insult their countries savours, they need to look at the many British and commonwealth war dead in cemeteries scattered around there country, they would all be speaking German if it was not for the British and Canadian and other colonial soldiers. In two world wars British blood has been spilt for France, the Queen is the country and the french have insulted us all!

I don't think she is entitled to an invitation.   However, the prime minister should be invited, as well as, the prime minister of Canada.    The queen is just a rich figurehead and has no real authority other than the poor ole Brits just can not do without thinking they have to show the world they have a monarchy.

Cheers to the French until the nexr world war in which they will be against anything America does.

Every French School Child knows that France won WWII without help. In fact the early defeats were as a result of English betrayals. If you don't believe just ask any Gaulleist.

If it was an oversight, it was a doozy. I never really recognized England royal family to be anything more than figure heads. As for all the soldiers  who stormed the beachs to confront the Germans they were the bravest of all. I don't believe there were many Englishmen or French there fighting, so that we can all be free today. 

yes they should have invited the Queen - France can't write Britian out of the 2nd world war.  The Brits lasted to the very end while France collapsed within the first two years!   It was an Anglo American invasion of France on D-day

as an american I am upset at what the french leader has done

This is pretty outrageous behavior on the part of the French.  If a clerk dropped the ball and no one corrected the error (despite British requests and inquiries for them to do so), I'd say the French government is horribly incompetent.  If this is a deliberate snub, then their conduct is even worse.  Britain paid dearly in WWII; they were fighting the Nazis 2 years before the Americans entered the war and had their major cities leveled to the ground by the Luftwaffe.  Unlike the French, Britain NEVER capitulated and shouldered the major part of the fight against the Nazis nearly alone well before the US entered the war and then they continued to fight gallantly to the very end of the war in Europe.  Also, the British fought the Japanese; like the Americans, they fought on many fronts.  The French argument that their invite to the British government was all that was required and it was then up to the British to include the Queen is pure nonsense.  That would be like sending an invitation to the US State Dept and expecting them to invite the President --- which they clearly did not do.  The French invited Obama personally.  The same diplomatic courtesty should have been extended to Her Royal Highness.  If I were a British subject I'd be outraged; as an American I'm sadddened because I believe the Queen deserves better -- as do her people.  I'm also a history professor so I'm very well aware of the many sacrifices the British made in WWII.  Like us, they left many dead on the shores of Normandy.  The British and Canadians who landed D-Day, like the Americans, did so to liberate France and beat the Nazis back to Berlin.  It is utterly shameful for the French to treat the British in this manner.