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Queen 'welcome at D-Day service'

The prime minister told BBC One's Andrew Marr programme if any royal wants to be at the commemorations on 6 June he would "make that possible".

Buckingham Palace has said there would be no royal presence because no-one was invited, but denied claims of a snub.

Mr Brown will represent the UK at the event in Normandy, to mark those who died storming the beaches 65 years ago.

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