In the midst of the continuing hoo-hah over MPs' expenses, Gordon Brown now finds himself accused of failing to secure an invitation for Her Majesty The Queen to this weekend's D-Day 65th Anniversary commemorations in France - in case she over-shadows his own regal presence.
The Queen has no official engagements on Saturday and Buckingham Palace has made clear it would have accepted an invitation had one been forthcoming.
Speaking yesterday, Mr Brown defended the situation saying that the event was intended, "for prime ministers and presidents."
It must therefore have escaped his attention that presidents, like kings and queens, are heads of state meaning Her Majesty should certainly be there.
But that, of course, would mean the Queen standing alongside Presidents Obama and Sarkozy rather than the Prime Minister himself.
Gordon Brown's premiership has long since defended into farce but this, in my view, takes it to an entirely new low.
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