French snub, or Gordon Brown's doing?

[VectraMan]

A word of advice - when someone discusses an article it might be an idea to actually read it before going off on one? Might not make such a prat of yourself that way. This is referring a BBC article after the interview with Brown this morning. It has nothing to do with the Daily Mail. It has nothing to do with the Daily Telegraph.

It was in The Daily Mail on Friday. I was reading it in the pub (I wouldn't buy it, honest), and it was full of typical Daily Mail language. So I assume the reason the BBC is now asking the Prime Minister about it is because The Daily Mail stirred up trouble and they jumped on the bandwagon, although I suppose it's entirely possible that the BBC are independently stirring up trouble. I didn't watch it this morning, but I can't help feeling there were more important things for Andrew Marr to be talking to Gordon Brown about than whether The Queen attends a function.

I was just saying that 65 seems a fairly insignificant anniversary to be getting all worked up about. Although I take the point that it might be the last for some, but then that must have been true for some for the 64th anniversary and I don't remember people getting this worked up last year. If 65 is somehow much more significant than 64, then please explain because I admit I must be missing something.