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Emmanuel Macron
With a nod to the slick and suave (and fictional) British spy James Bond, French President Emmanuel Macron has selected a 007-themed gift from luxury fashion brand S.T. Dupont to give to the couple as they tie the royal knot. (Macron, who is not invited, says he plans to watch the ceremony on TV.) A “purveyor to the world’s greatest names,” the French brand can add Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s names to that list. They will receive a bespoke pen and a heritage lighter.
It’s not the first time S.T. Dupont has created a gift for a British royal wedding. In 1947, then French president Vincent Auriol presented a bespoke travel case to the future Queen Elizabeth in celebration of her marriage to Prince Philip, a tradition that was revived by former President Nicholas Sarkozy, who gifted the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge a travel case for their wedding in 2011.
Donald and Melania Trump
Although President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are not invited to the wedding, they will still be honoring Harry and Meghan’s wedding gift wishes. White House Spokesperson Lindsay Walters confirmed Thursday that the Trumps will be making donation to one of the seven charities chosen by the royal couple in lieu of a gift.
Jacinda Ardern
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that the government will make a charitable donation to celebrate Harry and Meghan’s nuptials. She told reporters that the official donation of NZD 5,000 would go to Pillars, a charity in the country that supports the children of prisoners, and which is celebrating its 30th anniversary on the weekend of the royal wedding. Though the charity is not on the list of seven picked by the pair, Ardern told reporters that the couple were happy that the wedding would be acknowledged by the donation. “The couple are both very interested in initiatives that support vulnerable children and young people,” she said.
Malcolm Turnbull
According to Australian media, the country’s prime minister has promised two gifts for Harry and Meghan’s big day. The first, larger gift, will be a charitable donation of an unspecified amount—and the second Turnbull said he would not reveal till the wedding day, saying only that it was “very Australian and appeals to their interests.”
Though the country’s official gift may remain a secret, one of Australia’s regional governments has chosen to make its own offering to celebrate the couple’s big day. The government of New South Wales has named two koalas at Taronga Zoo, near Sydney, after Harry and Meghan, and the region’s leader, Premier Gladys Berejiklian told local media that the couple could visit them next time they visited Australia.
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