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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (из книги "British Studies" by V. Pavlotskiy, St.Petersburg, 1996)

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THE QUEEN'S PRESENTS

Everyone likes to receive presents, especially Christmas presents. It's great fun to open them, but sometimes the fun stops when you discover what the present is. If the aunt or uncle is there, in the same room, you have to say, "Thank you so much; it's just what I've always wanted." After they've gone you can put the present away in the drawer, give it to someone else or take it to a jumble sale. Everyone has received at least one present which he or she did not like.

For Queen Elizabeth, every day is Christmas day. Long ago, Buckingham Palace announced that the Queen didn't accept gifts from people whom she didn't know. Soon after this announcement, an American 'hot-dog' firm sent her a box of hot-dogs (with mustard, too!) because it was the anniversary of the day when her father, King George, had eaten his first hot-dog on a visit to America.

Royal visits to foreign countries are a problem, too. When the Queen returned from Canada on the Royal Yacht, she brought home a mink coat, a large statue of a horse, a pair of snowshoes, a motor-boat, a piece of iron, a silver jug, some spears and a painting of a power station. The Queen stopped for two hours in Brazil on another tour and received a large vase, a painting, some records, a wooden key, a model of Brasilia Cathedral, a book about Brasilia and a photograph of the President and his wife in a silver frame.

What does the Queen do with these presents? Where can she put a talking drum from Canada or a model of a boat from Ostend or a totem-pole from Canada? There are 600 rooms in Buckingham Palace and the Queen tries to use all of her presents. She lends many of her presents to museums, especially the British Museum'.

Visitors and guests want to give ornamental clocks, gold keys, etc, — but this is what she really needs: one year's supply of electric light bulbs, one year's supply of washing-up liquid, one year's supply of floor polish, etc.

Life's expensive when one of your houses has 600 rooms and the Queen owns five houses!