Queen Elizabeth GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: A royal controversy has the British fuming.
The French are snubbing Queen Elizabeth, failing to invite her to Normandy for next week’s 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings. And this one is getting ugly, considering Queen Elizabeth, then Princess Elizabeth, actually served in uniform during World War II, service number 230873, yes, to save the French, who are now not inviting her. Joining us live is Duncan Larcombe, Royal Editor for “The Sun.” Duncan, this is horrible. The French ought to be ashamed of this one. DUNCAN LARCOMBE, ROYAL EDITOR, “THE SUN”: Yes. It is a row that has been bubbling under the surface in Britain now for a few weeks. And this has really came to a head in the last week or so, when the French have had to — they never invited the queen to come along to the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings. I hate to be too dramatic, but if it were not for the British and the Americans at D-Day, the French might not be speaking French right now. And not to invite the queen, who served, the only living head of state who served in uniform during World War II is just appalling. That is right. And also, the servicemen — to understand the scale of this row, if you like, in Britain, you have to understand that the British servicemen who fought at D-Day in Normandy, the British soldiers now that go to our Afghanistan, they do so for king and country, nowadays for queen and country.
The link between the royal family and the head of state in Britain and the armed forces is very, very special link that we have. And so it makes it all the more, I suppose, insulting, really, for those guys who are still alive who fought alongside colleagues that died on the beaches 65 years ago next week.