Queen appeals to set aside row over Iraq

"We cannot allow current political tensions, whatever the feelings they create on one side or the other, divide us over the long term," she said in a speech -- delivered in French -- at a banquet hosted by President Jacques Chirac in her honour.

"We know that neither our two great nations, nor Europe, nor the Atlantic alliance, can allow themselves to be shaken apart or to have disputes in the face of the threats which confront all of us and our safety and our prosperity," she said.

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