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Brooches, marzipan, homemade honey butter for the queen

LONDON (AP) — What does the woman who has everything get as gifts?

A list of official gifts received by Queen Elizabeth II from world leaders and dignitaries during 2015 features jewelry, ornaments and some more unusual choices — including homemade honey butter from Michelle Obama.

Buckingham Palace said Wednesday the U.S. first lady offered a gift box of lemon verbena tea, a candle, two small pots of honey and a jar of honey butter from the White House kitchen garden during her June visit to Britain. She also gave the queen a Tiffany & Co. silver “honeycomb and bee bud vase.”

Other curious gifts: The governor of the British Virgin Islands presented “a bag of salt” and German President Joachim Gauck offered a marzipan model of the Brandenburg Gate.


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