American business magnate, author, editor and homemaking advocate Martha Stewart has been denied entry to Britain because of her past criminal convictions for lying about a share sale.

Martha Stewart was planning to travel to U.K. in a trip of only a few days to speak at the Royal Academy and hold meetings with key figures in the leisure and fashion industries like designer Jasper Conran, the Daily Telegraph reports.

“She has engagements with English companies and business leaders and hopes this can be resolved so that she will be able to visit soon,” Charles Koppelman, chairman of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia said in a statement, according to Reuters.

The UK Border Agency said it opposed the entry in the UK of anyone convicted of “serious criminal offences abroad.”

“Martha loves England and hopes this can be resolved and that she will be able to visit soon,” her spokesman told the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

Stewart was found guilty of conspiracy, making false statements and obstruction of agency proceedings. In 2004, she was sentenced to serve a five month term in a federal correctional facility and a two year period of supervised release, which included a five months period of home confinement. She was released on March, 2005, and placed under home confinement. According to US Securities and Exchange Commission in a federal indictment, Steward avoided a loss of $45,637 by selling all 3,928 shares of her ImClone stock in late 2001. The stock value fell 16% after her sale.