How to insult your liberators

[ccga3359]

Royal family are not invited to 65th anniversary of D-Day.

[KFCarter]

Definitely belongs in the WTF file. How does something like this happen?

[george7]

INFURIATING! That's about all that can be said without breaking forum rules on politics.

[ghostlight]

Agreed. That's just...wow. Not cool.

[Kent Frazier]

I...I...Just don't know what to say...

[ccga3359]

INFURIATING! That's about all that can be said without breaking forum rules on politics.

My thoughts exactly. As a Briton I'm insulted, as a Canadian it's a double insult.

[xena]

This has been thoroughly discussed on some British sites I'm familiar with.

The scoop is, the French government, quite properly, invited the British government to send it's representatives. It just so happened that the (British!) elected official's decided that HM and the Royal family were not welcome. The current group of elected officials seem to have a decided bent to ignore history, the military, and all things Royal.


Edit: I just want to add that I'm not trying to make political statements. It's just for clarity that I'm pointing out that it wasn't the French who were snubbing the Royals. It's the elected British government that's doing that.

[Tartan Shortbread Jock]

Sad, so very sad.
A wee bit of respect does not harm anyone.

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

This has been thoroughly discussed on some British sites I'm familiar with.

The scoop is, the French government, quite properly, invited the British government to send it's representatives. It just so happened that the (British!) elected official's decided that HM and the Royal family were not welcome. The current group of elected officials seem to have a decided bent to ignore history, the military, and all things Royal.


Edit: I just want to add that I'm not trying to make political statements. It's just for clarity that I'm pointing out that it wasn't the French who were snubbing the Royals. It's the elected British government that's doing that.

Reason 17 why I moved to the United States...

[ccga3359]

This has been thoroughly discussed on some British sites I'm familiar with.

The scoop is, the French government, quite properly, invited the British government to send it's representatives. It just so happened that the (British!) elected official's decided that HM and the Royal family were not welcome. The current group of elected officials seem to have a decided bent to ignore history, the military, and all things Royal.


Edit: I just want to add that I'm not trying to make political statements. It's just for clarity that I'm pointing out that it wasn't the French who were snubbing the Royals. It's the elected British government that's doing that.

Yet an French official is quoted as:

A French government source said: 'There were never any plans to invite members of the British Royal Family, although an invitation has been extended to Gordon Brown after he said he wanted to come.
'He will, of course, be concentrating on the British commemorations, away from the American beaches, as is appropriate. This is very much a Franco-American occasion.'