What do you give a prince who has pretty well everything? In the case of one individual who bumped into Prince William on a tour of Australia last year, it was a jar of Vegemite, the local equivalent of Marmite. When William went on to Canada with his bride after the royal wedding last summer, the presents included a tartan waistcoat and a flying helmet.

All well received, no doubt, along with an extensive list of other presents given to Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge and to Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall during their overseas tours last year, which have just been published by St James's Palace on their royal website.

The gifts range from the poignant (some building fragments from the wreckage of the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, which William visited following last February's disastrous earthquake) to the predictable (a wide-brimmed hat and a cricket jacket from his trip to Australia) to the frankly bizarre (the duchess received a tartan fascinator during the couple's first official visit to Canada). There were also gifts that come under the heading of "you shouldn't have", such as a pair of caribou antler snow goggles. The presents also included, more practically, three pairs of shoes from the Canadian ministry of foreign affairs and a quilt from the governor-general.

Prince Charles received a bottle of port, unsurprisingly, when he visited Portugal in the spring, and four bottles of olive oil and a cured ham from the ministry of the environment in Spain, a salt cellar and tray set from the Spanish royal family, and eight jars of marmalade. When he visited South Africa in October, among other gifts, he was given a trilby hat and a set of Zulu spears and shields and the duchess was presented with a woven Zulu basket and some seaweed soaps.