To keep with Christmas tradition, the Malta’s High Commissioner in the UK has sent a box of Maltese oranges as a Christmas gift to Her Majesty The Queen.
This tradition was revived during the High Commissioner’s presentation of credentials to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in June 2009.
When Her Majesty received Joseph Zammit Tabona in audience at Buckingham Palace, she recalled how the late Mabel Strickland OBE used to send her a box of Maltese oranges to Buckingham Palace every Christmas.
Susan Zammit Tabona proposed to revive this tradition at Christmas and together with her husband, has done so ever since.
This year’s six dozen oranges, which came from the gardens of Mabel Strickland’s former Lija residence ‘Villa Parisio’, were presented in a hand crafted wooden chest purposely made in Malta for this occasion.