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Buckingham Palace has released records of authoritative gifts fixed to the Royal Family - including a Rolls-Royce for King Charles.
According to the records, which screen authoritative gifts to astir members of the Royal Family from 2020 to 2023, the monarch was fixed the luxury conveyance by the King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.
The Rolls-Royce Cullinan Series II is not for idiosyncratic use; instead, it's for authoritative purposes including authorities occasions.
Given to the King successful May 2023, it retails for $443,575 - oregon astir £329,545.
Other gifts for the King during the period of his coronation see a feather crown, 2 beaded thorax pieces and 2 carved staffs from Amazonian Indigenous leaders Uyunkar Domingo Peas Nampichkai and Atossa Soltani.
Former US president Joe Biden and then-first woman Jill Biden besides talented Charles a leather folder containing printed letters betwixt Queen Elizabeth II and erstwhile president Dwight D Eisenhower.
In April that year, the King and Queen Camilla received 2 golden Blue Peter badges from Blue Peter presenters during a sojourn to Liverpool earlier the metropolis hosted Eurovision.
And during an assemblage with Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy successful February, the King was presented with a framed mosaic, a scrolled papers astir St Sophia Cathedral, and a signed Ukrainian ship's flag.
Other royal gifts see Queen Elizabeth II receiving a Cedar of Lebanon histrion from Pope Francis successful 2022 - the twelvemonth of her Platinum Jubilee.
During a sojourn to the Coronation Street acceptable successful Greater Manchester successful 2021, she received a cobble from the archetypal acceptable successful a presumption case, 2 gin glasses with Manchester skyline silhouette plan and a enactment of themed gifts including a publication entitled 60 Years Of Coronation Street and a vessel of Coronation Street gin.
In 2020, Prince William and Catherine, past the Duchess of Cambridge, were some talented a toiletries acceptable from the president of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, and his woman Sabina Higgins.
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Official gifts to the Royal Family tin beryllium worn and used, but are not considered the royals' idiosyncratic property. The royals besides bash not wage taxation connected them.
They tin devour immoderate nutrient they are given, and perishable authoritative gifts with a worth nether £150 tin beryllium fixed to foundation oregon staff.
Gifts cannot beryllium sold oregon exchanged and yet go portion of the Royal Collection, which is held successful spot for successors and the nation.
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