What do you offer a queen who has everything?
An iPod seemed quite appropriate for President Obama and First Lady Michelle who met the Queen of England at the Buckingham Palace in London on Wednesday. The Apple music player was filled with videos of the queen herself. Specifically, footage and photographs of her 2007 United States visit to Richmond, Jamestown and Williamsburg in Virginia, the BBC reports. Apparently, they also gave her rare a songbook signed by Richard Rogers.
However, London’s Daily Telegraph says the queen already has an iPod – a 6GB silver Mini she bought in 2005 at Prince Andrew's suggestion. But probably she needed an upgrade…
Well, at least this is better than giving her a bunch of DVDs that don’t work, as it was in the case of England's Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The presidential couple was widely criticized for the modest presents they gave Mr. Brown and his wife during their visit to the White House earlier last month: a box set of classic American movies on DVDs that were not even compatible with British DVD players.
Queen Elizabeth II, in turn, gave the Obamas a silver-framed signed photograph of herself and her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, which is apparently the standard present at Buckingham Palace for visiting dignitaries.
