They take it more seriously than you think!
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been inundated with gifts from royal fans and well-wishers during their trip Down Under.
And while the gifts range from flowers to touchingly personal gestures – the Duke and Duchess of Sussex hand them all to a minder after giving a warm thankyou to the gift-giver.
So what happens to them all?
The royal gift policy says Meg and Hazza are free to accept and use any gift they receive that costs less than GBP £150 (AUD $276).
If a flashy gift-giver wants to gift them something worth more than that – the royals can politely return the gift or donate it to “another body or organisation [who] might be able to make better use of them than the Member of the Royal Family”.
There’s also an option to class a posh pressie as an “official gift”.
But they take every gift more seriously than you think. Some unlucky bugger has the job of logging every single gift given to a royal in a special registry, that records the gift, who it was for and who it was from. That list is released to the public once a year. Once Prince Charles was gifted fairy dust (true story).
The rest of the stuff? Gifts can be kept in storage for up to five years, incorporated into an official royal collection, donated to charity or… yep, thrown in the bin.
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Written by Hayley
