What's happening

Today The Queen, Duke of Edinburgh and prime minister attend a luncheon hosted by the Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma at Marlborough House

Today David Cameron holds talks with Norwegian prime minister Jens Stoltenberg in Oslo

11.00 The EU announces second estimate figures for GDP for the first quarter of 2012

Today Defence minister Andrew Robotham attends a commemoration of the 68th anniversary of the Second World War D-Day landings in Normandy

11.00 Alex Salmond attends the launch of an anti-sectarian DVD created by secondary school pupils in Lanarkshire

13.00 US Chief of Army Staff General Raymond Odierno discusses the future of the US Army in the context of declining budget and a shift in emphasis to the Asia-Pacific region at Chatham House

What's been said

Cameron created Warsi – will he be forced to destroy her, wonders Paul Goodman in the Daily Telegraph

It was a royal jubilee of bread and circuses, maybe, but the country needed the collective buzz, says Simon Jenkins in The Guardian

In Britain, we pretend the problem of racism has been defeated, despite all evidence to the contrary, says Ian Birrell in The Independent

Of all my million words uttered in politics, only eight mattered, says David Lipsey in The Times (£)