{"id":145961,"date":"2025-05-31T05:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T05:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/145961\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T05:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T05:10:11","slug":"rolls-royce-blue-peter-badges-and-a-mosaic-from-zelenskyy-buckingham-palace-shares-reveals-the-gifts-given-to-the-royal-family-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/145961\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolls-Royce, Blue Peter badges and a mosaic from Zelenskyy: Buckingham Palace shares reveals the gifts given to the Royal Family | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buckingham Palace has released records of official gifts given to the Royal Family – including a Rolls-Royce for King Charles.<\/p>\n

According to the records, which cover official gifts to most members of the Royal Family<\/strong><\/a> from 2020 to 2023, the monarch<\/strong><\/a> was given the luxury vehicle by the King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.<\/p>\n

The Rolls-Royce Cullinan Series II is not for personal use; instead, it’s for official purposes including state occasions.<\/p>\n

Given to the King in May 2023, it retails for $443,575 – or around \u00a3329,545.<\/p>\n

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\n The King was given the luxury vehicle by the King of Bahrain. File pic: AP<\/p>\n

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Other gifts for the King during the month of his coronation<\/strong><\/a> include a feather crown, two beaded chest pieces and two carved staffs from Amazonian Indigenous leaders Uyunkar Domingo Peas Nampichkai and Atossa Soltani.<\/p>\n

Former US president Joe Biden<\/strong><\/a> and then-first lady Jill Biden also gifted Charles a leather folder containing printed letters between Queen Elizabeth II<\/strong><\/a> and former president Dwight D Eisenhower.<\/p>\n

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\n Former US president Joe Biden had a gift for the King. File pic: Reuters<\/p>\n

In April that year, the King and Queen Camilla<\/strong><\/a> received two gold Blue Peter badges from Blue Peter presenters during a visit to Liverpool before the city hosted Eurovision.<\/p>\n

And during an audience with Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy<\/strong><\/a> in February, the King was presented with a framed mosaic, a scrolled document about St Sophia Cathedral, and a signed Ukrainian ship’s flag.<\/p>\n

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\n Ukraine’s president met the King in February. File pic: Reuters<\/p>\n

Other royal gifts include Queen Elizabeth II receiving a Cedar of Lebanon tree from Pope Francis in 2022 – the year of her Platinum Jubilee.<\/p>\n

During a visit to the Coronation Street set in Greater Manchester in 2021, she received a cobble from the original set in a presentation case, two gin glasses with Manchester skyline silhouette design and a selection of themed gifts including a book entitled 60 Years Of Coronation Street and a bottle of Coronation Street gin.<\/p>\n

In 2020, Prince William<\/strong><\/a> and Catherine<\/strong><\/a>, then the Duchess of Cambridge, were both gifted a toiletries set from the president of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, and his wife Sabina Higgins.<\/p>\n

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Official gifts to the Royal Family can be worn and used, but are not considered the royals’ personal property. The royals also do not pay tax on them.<\/p>\n

They can eat any food they are given, and perishable official gifts with a value under \u00a3150 can be given to charity or staff.<\/p>\n

Gifts cannot be sold or exchanged and eventually become part of the Royal Collection, which is held in trust for successors and the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buckingham Palace has released records of official gifts given to the Royal Family – including a Rolls-Royce for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-145961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-royal","9":"tag-royal-families","10":"tag-royal-family","11":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114600727760648602","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}