14 DAY TRIAL // US President Barack Obama has been mighty thoughtful on his visit to the Queen of England, bringing Queen Elizabeth II an iPod loaded with lots of great stuff as a present. The Queen, on her part, gave the President a silver-framed signed photograph of herself and the Duke of Edinburgh.
An NME report says that President Barack Obama, on his visit to the UK this week, exchanged gifts with the Queen of England at the Buckingham Palace. The President reportedly loaded the device (model not specified) with video footage and photographs of the Queen's 2007 US visit to Richmond, Jamestown and Williamsburg in Virginia. The Daily Telegraph provided the rest of the information, concerning the Queen's gift – a standard present for visiting dignitaries, as it is described by NME. Queen Elizabeth is thought to already own a 6 gig iPod she reportedly acquired in 2005 at the suggestion of Prince Andrew.
A separate report reveals that Obama’s gift of an iPod to Queen Elizabeth II came loaded with 40 songs from popular Broadway productions, including “The King and I,” “West Side Story” and “Dreamgirls.” Moreover, the iPod was actually given to accompany a rare coffee table book of songs by composers Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, which Obama also gave the Queen as a present.
Although the iPod model was not specified in any report documenting the event, we can be sure it's none of the two iPod shuffles Apple currently sells, since President Obama not only loaded the device with audio, but also with video footage and pictures.
"There's one last [thing] that I should mention that I love about Great Britain, and that is the Queen," said US President Barack Obama."And so I'm very much looking forward to meeting her for the first time later this evening. And as you might imagine, Michelle has been really thinking that through – because I think in the imagination of people throughout America, I think what the Queen stands for and her decency and her civility, what she represents, that's very important."
Obama had earlier spoke of his admiration for the monarch at his joint press conference with Gordon Brown.