6/4/10: Obama Admin's Latest British Blunder

Another Obama gaffe involving Great Britain:

An official statement from the US foreign policy chief paid tribute to the "Queen’s life and legacy,” despite the fact that the Monarch does not celebrate her official birthday until next weekend.

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A spokesman for Mrs Clinton attemped to make light of the gaffe.

"We were a week early," Philip Crowley joked to reporters in Washington.

"As always, it is better to give a greeting a week early than a week late.”

A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman added: “It was obviously a genuine mistake and there was no offence taken whatsoever”. She declined to say whether the State Department had apologised.

Source: UK Telegraph

Add this to the growing list of foreign policy snubs, gaffes and blunders. The UK has been the target of quite a few of these - including sending back the Churchill bust, multiple snubs of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, giving an iPod to the then 82-year old Queen Elizabeth, giving Gordon Brown a chilly reception at the White House and giving a cheap gift of 25 DVDs that won't play in European DVD players.