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\n Buckingham Palace has released records of official gifts given to the Royal Family – including a Rolls-Royce for the King.\n <\/p>\n
According to the records, which cover official gifts to most members of the Royal Family<\/strong> from 2020 to 2023, the monarch<\/strong> 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 Other gifts for the King during the month of his coronation<\/strong> 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> and then-first lady Jill Biden also gifted the King a leather folder containing printed letters between Queen Elizabeth II<\/strong> and former president Dwight D Eisenhower.<\/p>\n In April that year, the King and Queen Camilla<\/strong> 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> 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 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> and Kate<\/strong>, 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 Read more: 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 \n
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