re: #1393 JustMyView
I wouldn’t say that it does represent that relationship, but so what? What would? It represents our country, and the material on it represents connections between and our country and the Queen. What would you have given?
The WH protocol office would have a list of prior gifts to the Queen. It would have been symbolic of the ties between the two countries.
It’s not just the iPod if I didn’t know any better I would say Obama was going out of his way to insult GB. His gifts to and treatment of PM Brown, his choice of gifts.