UK queen gets chocolate castle as gift
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Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II received dozens of traditional gifts of crystal vases, brooches and books last year, but she also got some unusual items, from a chocolate Windsor Castle to some enameled beetles.
Buckingham Palace yesterday released a list of official gifts the queen and other members of the royal family received in 2013 from foreign dignitaries, companies and charities. Many were predictable — china plates, paperweights, framed pictures — but some were more surprising.
The High Commissioner for Bangladesh gave the queen four enameled Scarab beetles, and Sri Lanka’s president chose a portrait of the monarch burned onto a tree trunk. The maker of Mars Bars gave her a chocolate version of Windsor Castle and a chocolate carriage after she visited the company’s UK headquarters.
Some of the more lavish items on the queen’s gift list included a family photograph in a gold frame set on a jeweled ostrich egg and a five-strand pearl necklace, given by the president of the United Arab Emirates when he visited in April. The governor of Saskatchewan in Canada sent a diamond and tourmaline brooch.
Princess Anne also received some unconventional presents, including a gnome, a plastic angel, and an art print of the royal riding a moose — a gift from a Canadian artist.
Cufflinks, ties, tie pins and pens were popular gifts for the royal men, according to the list.
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