No member of the Royal Family has been invited to next week's official D-Day commemorations in France.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown will attend events in Normandy on June 6 to mark the 65th anniversary of the landings that helped defeat Hitler's Germany.
And US president Barack Obama will also join French president Nicholas Sarkozy to mark the anniversary.
It is widely expected to be one of the last times Allied veterans who took part in the landings will travel to formally remember the event.
A Buckingham Palace spokesman said: "No invitation has been issued as yet to any member of the Royal Family." The spokesman would not comment on whether an invitation for any royal had been expected.
During the last landmark anniversary of the Allied invasion, the 60th, in 2004, the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Prince of Wales joined British VIPs who attended commemoration events in France.
The Normandy landings in 1944 saw thousands of Allied troops pour on to the beaches of occupied France and marked a strategic turning point in the war against Germany.
A spokesman for Downing Street said he was unaware of any commemoration arrangements for D-Day involving the Royal Family.
British veterans will hold their main memorial event at the Arromanches landing beaches, where thousands of troops poured ashore on June 6 and during the following days.
Peter Hodge, secretary of the Normandy Veterans Association, said having the Queen present would have been "the icing on the cake" for his members.
