Royal censorship? BBC says 'sorry' for daring to report UK queen's comments [1]

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II arrives in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, on June 26.

LONDON - Imagine this: President Barack Obama makes an indiscreet remark to a reporter. The White House complains after the journalist reports the newsworthy encounter. The reporter and his network apologize. Hard to visualize, isn’t it? But something very similar did happen with the U.K.'s head of state this week.

Highly respected BBC journalist Frank Gardner [2] reported a controversial conversation with Queen Elizabeth II about radical Islamist cleric Abu Hamza al-Mazri, who on Monday lost his appeal against extradition to the United States to face terrorism charges.