‘Breakdown of trust’: the Queen invites Johnson to become prime minister in July

Boris Johnson has personally apologised for embarrassing the Queen by requiring her to approve the unlawful suspension of the House of Commons.

Royal sources have revealed that there was huge disquiet in the Queen’s household about Johnson’s decision to prorogue parliament for five weeks, even before the Supreme Court ruled last week that it was unlawful.

Earlier this month courtiers had plotted ways to distance the monarch from the political firestorm raging over Brexit amid fears that Johnson would use the Queen’s speech as a device to trigger a general election.

The prime minister telephoned the Queen on Tuesday after the Supreme Court ruled that he had been wrong to suspend parliament for five weeks.

A No 10 source confirmed: “He got on to