NO!

[anachronus]

One does not give Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II an iPod.

Especially when one is a fellow head of state.

Your Majesty I most humbly apologize.

P.S.
If he had tried that with Maggie, the still would not have been able to remove her purse from his ass. 

Comments

[anonymous]

and, like the french guy at the castle said 'She's already got one, you see?'

yup, insanely tacky gift for a queen

[bladedante]

A tacky and extremely undiplomatic faux pas, 'tis true, but quite honestly I hope stories such as this one are the worst we read about the current Administration. Tastelessness in gift-giving certainly beats starting a war in the Middle East or hollowing out our economy.

While I am thinking of it, I am indeed the rat bastard who has your Rome Season 1. I will bring it to our next hack-and-slash session.

[anachronus]

From my favourite liberal columnist:

"And then there was the fiasco of the ham-handed White House reception for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, which was evidently lacking the most basic elements of ceremony and protocol. Don't they read the "Iliad" anymore in the Ivy League? Check that out for the all-important ritual of gift giving, which has cemented alliances around the world for 5,000 years."

That goes double when you meet the Queen.