According to the Daily Mail, Katie Price (I think that’s what she likes to be called nowadays) was invited to have lunch with the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace. The palace regularly sets up luncheons with guest lists including “people representing a cross-section of society, the arts, sport, academia and the media.” Where exactly does Katie fall in here? Too classless for society, too trashy for the arts, too slutty for sports, and too dumb for academia.

The invitation came on the heels of Katie being barred from a presigious VIP champagne luncheon at a polo match because she was “too chavvy.”

A year ago she was barred from the prestigious Cartier International Polo contest at Windsor because she was deemed ‘too chavvy’.

But topless model turned TV star Katie ‘Jordan’ Price may have had the last laugh – an invitation to dine at Buckingham Palace, no less.

Miss Price claimed yesterday that she was asked to lunch at the royal residence. Unfortunately she was forced to turn it down because she and her husband, singer Peter Andre, are in America filming a reality television series.

But sources close to the star say she is a big fan of the Queen and is hopeful of receiving another invitation sometime soon.

[From Daily Mail]

Katie claims that she and Princess Anne have a shared love of horses, and she has also gotten an invite to the her home for some tea and crumpets. She says, “Even Princess Anne knows how much I love horses and has invited me to her house to watch polo. I’ll definitely go for lunch with her, so my Princess can meet a real-life princess.”

Last we saw Katie, she was getting smashed at a pub while training for the London marathon. Not the kind of behavior that gets you invited to the royal palace. On the other hand, in recent years British royalty has been trying to become more accessible to the public, and there was quite a bit of hooplah about Katie’s non-invite to the polo event, so perhaps this is some kind of damage control. That is, if Katie is telling the truth. It’s not as if she is lacking in funds – you’d think that she’d be able to hop a plane to the UK for a day. Wouldn’t dining with the Queen be worth the jet lag?

Here’s Katie Price and husband Peter Andre leaving their Manhattan hotel on Saturday. Images thanks to WENN .