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Mirren mortified over palace 'snub'

Dame Helen Mirren said she was "mortified" today following reports that she was "too busy" to have dinner with the Queen.

Dame Helen, who scooped the best actress Oscar for her performance in the box office hit The Queen, said she tried to rearrange the shooting of her new film National Treasure but it was not possible.

The 61-year-old actress denied she snubbed the Queen's invitation to Buckingham Palace.

advertisement"I am mortified,'' she told the New York Post.

She said she was working on National Treasure in the Black Hills of South Dakota with Nicolas Cage.

"I just could not shut all that down to take three days off to go to Buckingham Palace,'' she said.