Mirren declines royal invitation
The queen won’t be meeting “The Queen” just yet.
Helen Mirren, who won an Academy Award this year for playing Queen Elizabeth II, has turned down an invitation to dinner at Buckingham Palace, a British newspaper reported.
The Mail said Mirren had been invited to dine with the queen last week but sent her regrets because she is filming “National Treasure: Book of Secrets” in the United States.
“The palace very kindly extended an invitation to dinner last Tuesday, May 1,” Mirren said in a statement quoted by the newspaper. “But, unfortunately, I was filming in South Dakota and unable to change my schedule. I am very sad not to have been able to attend.”
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