Details of gifts King Charles and Queen Camilla received in Scotland revealed
The couple was crowned in Scotland months after their coronation
King Charles and Queen Camilla gave an afternoon party in the garden of the Palace of Holyroodhouse to celebrate their Scottish coronation last week.
Prior to that evet, the First Minister of Scotland presented coronation gifts on behalf of the people of Scotland.
These were the Carolean Table (crafted from oak grown in the "Kingdom of Fife" and featuring the Lion Rampant and the King's cypher. the Paperweight (made from reclaimed Teak used in the Edinburgh Castle drawbridge in 1938) and the Wentworth Elm ( a sapling from a rare sub-species that thought to have become extinct).
The appears to be the first time a government in the UK has made a coronation gift.
Scotland marked the coronation of King Charles and his wife Camilla last week with a grand procession full of pageantry and a solemn church service where he was presented with the "Honours of Scotland", Britain's oldest crown jewels.
Charles and Camilla were crowned in London's Westminster Abbey in May in front of about 100 world leaders in Britain's biggest ceremonial event for seven decades.
The 74-year-old, who is said to have a deep affection for Scotland, succeeded his mother as monarch of the United Kingdom and 14 other realms when Queen Elizabeth died in September.
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