Posted by Torkel on September 24, 2013, 10:49 am, in reply to "Re: Extravagant Gifts"
Similarly, Queen Silvia is known to have received jewels during a visit to Brunei, and Queen Paola received diamonds during a visit to Congo.
It seems the Middle Eastern (and some Asian) countries provide lavish gifts for most (all?) visiting royals. The difference here beeing that the British government has traditionally kept a much closer relationship to many of these countries. Thus the British royals visit the middle East more often, and receive visitors from Middle Eastern countries more often.