2026-04-29T13:04:00-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
作者：马克·奥斯本
更新于：2026年4月29日 / 美国东部时间下午1:06 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
美国虽诞生于对英国君主的反抗，但两国如今拥有悠久的外交关系。而友谊怎能少了礼物往来？
近两个世纪以来，总统与君主们一直在外交出访期间互赠礼物。有些礼物曾引发争议——比如2008年乔治·W·布什赠送给伊丽莎白二世女王一辆高尔夫球车大小的电动汽车——也有些礼物恰到好处——比如本周二查尔斯国王赠送给特朗普总统的英国“特朗普号”潜艇船钟。
英国送给美国总统最著名、也最持久的礼物当属“坚毅号书桌”。这张自1880年起就摆放在白宫的标志性书桌，是维多利亚女王赠送给拉瑟福德·B·海斯总统的礼物。书桌由英国“坚毅号”军舰的木材制成，该舰曾被困冰层并被遗弃，1855年被美国捕鲸船发现。美国方面将其修复后归还英国，1879年该舰退役后，工匠们用其木料打造了这张坚毅号书桌。
自海斯总统以来，除林登·约翰逊、理查德·尼克松和杰拉尔德·福特外，每位美国总统都曾使用过这张书桌。（它曾被借给展览，直到吉米·卡特1977年要求将其取回，摆放在自己的椭圆形办公室中。）
奥巴马夫妇时期
2011年5月，奥巴马夫妇拜访伊丽莎白女王和爱丁堡公爵时，奥巴马总统收到了一批维多利亚女王与历任美国总统往来的书信集，而维多利亚女王正是女王的曾曾祖母。这些书信中包括1834年约翰·昆西·亚当斯写给当时还是公主的维多利亚的信件，以及维多利亚在丈夫亚伯拉罕·林肯遇刺后写给玛丽·托德·林肯的吊唁信。
两年前，奥巴马总统送给女王一台iPod的举动曾登上新闻头条。在2011年的这次访问中，奥巴马夫妇还赠送给女王一本皮面相册，里面收录了女王父母——乔治六世国王和伊丽莎白王后——1939年访美时的罕见纪念品和照片。
特朗普时期
特朗普先生是英国王室的知名仰慕者。他以总统身份首次正式访问英国是在2018年7月。此次出访期间，特朗普总统赠送给伊丽莎白女王一尊锡制骏马——多年来美国赠送给伊丽莎白和菲利普亲王的马术相关礼物中，这只是其中之一。
特朗普总统在第一任期内三次到访英国，第二任期内也已到访过一次。
本周二，查尔斯国王送给特朗普一份惊喜礼物：“特朗普号”潜艇的船钟，该艇是1944年下水的T级潜艇。“Trump”这个名字实际上并非指某个人名，而是意为“号角、王牌”。二战前后建造的全部53艘T级潜艇，名字均以字母T开头——从“金枪鱼号”“风暴号”到“嗨吼号”“踮脚号”不一而足。
“特朗普号”潜艇为英国立下汗马功劳，成功度过二战，最终于1971年被拆解报废。
卡米拉王后在本周访美时也准备了一份惊喜。人们看到她佩戴了一枚带有英国国旗和美国星条旗图案的胸针，这枚胸针是1957年伊丽莎白女王首次访美时收到的礼物。
From a brooch to the queen’s iPod: A history of gifts between the U.S. and U.K.
2026-04-29T13:04:00-0400 / CBS News
By Mark Osborne
Updated on: April 29, 2026 / 1:06 PM EDT / CBS News
The U.S. might have been born out of rebellion against a British monarch, but the two countries now also have a long history of diplomatic relations. And what’s a friendship without gift-giving?
Presidents and monarches have been exchanging gifts on diplomatic trips for nearly two centuries. Some gifts have been infamous — such as George W. Bush gifting Queen Elizabeth II a golf cart-size electric vehicle in 2008 — while others have hit just the right note — such as King Charles’ gift on Tuesday to President Trump of a bell from the British submarine HMS Trump.
The most famous — and lasting — gift from the U.K. to a U.S. president was the Resolute Desk. The desk, which has been a centerpiece of the White House since 1880, was gifted from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes. The desk was made from the wood of the HMS Resolute, a British ship that became stuck in ice and abandoned before being discovered by an American whaling ship in 1855. It was refurbished and given back to England, and the Resolute Desk was crafted after the ship was decommissioned in 1879.
A plaque on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office at the White House. Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis via Getty Images
The Resolute Desk has been used by every president since Hayes except Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. (It had been loaned to an exhibition until Jimmy Carter requested it for his Oval Office in 1977.)
President Barack Obama signs bills into law on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office at the White House, Nov. 27, 2013. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
The Obamas
When the Obamas made a visit to see Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh in May 2011, President Obama received a collection of presidential letters to and from Queen Victoria, the queen’s great-great-grandmother. Among the letters was one from John Quincy Adams to then-Princess Victoria in 1834. There was also a letter from Victoria to Mary Todd Lincoln following the assassination of her husband Abraham Lincoln.
President Barack Obama and Queen Elizabeth II chat during a State Banquet ay Buckingham Palace on May 24, 2011, in London. rota/Anwar Hussein/Getty Images
Two years earlier, President Obama made headlines when he gifted the queen an iPod. At the 2011 visit, the Obamas gave the queen a leather-bound album with rare memorabilia and photographs from her parents’ King George VI and Queen Elizabeth’s 1939 visit to the United States.
The Trumps
Mr. Trump is a well-known admirer of the British royal family. He made his first official visit to the U.K. as president in July 2018. On that trip, the president gifted Queen Elizabeth with a pewter horse — one of many equestrian-related gifts the U.S. presented to Elizabeth and Prince Philip over the years.
Mr. Trump visited the royal family three times during his first term, and has already visited once in his second term.
President Trump and Britain’s King Charles III smile beside the original bell from the HMS Trump, a World War II-era submarine inscribed “Trump 1944,” a gift from the king, during a state dinner at the White House on April 28, 2026. Henry Nicholls /AFP via Getty Images
King Charles surprised Mr. Trump on Tuesday with the gift of a bell from the HMS Trump, a T-class submarine launched in 1944. The name Trump doesn’t actually refer to a person’s name but the word “trump.” All 53 T-class submarines, built leading up to and after World War II, received names beginning with T — everything from Tuna and Tempest to Tally-Ho and Tiptoe.
The bell from HMS Trump, gifted by King Charles III to President Trump, at the state dinner at the White House on April 28, 2026. Aaron Chown/PA Images via Getty Images
The HMS Trump had a good term of service for the U.K., surviving the war and eventually being scrapped in 1971.
Queen Camilla had a surprise of her own when she arrived in the U.S. for this week’s visit. She was seen wearing a brooch with the Union Jack and Stars and Stripes flags presented to Queen Elizabeth on her first visit to the United States in 1957.
Queen Camilla wore a brooch with the U.S. and U.K. flags as she landed in the U.S. for a visit on April 27, 2026. It had been a gift to Queen Elizabeth. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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