Every year, the royal family releases lists of every gift they have received.

It details where the gift was given, what it was, who gave it, and to whom it was for.

This year's list had gifts spanning from the everyday to the extravagant.

There were bottles of beer, baskets of honey, hobby horses, tins of biscuits, a bottle of gin for Prince William and a torch for Prince Harry.

In previous years, Prince Charles was gifted fairy dust from a rather star-struck admirer from New Zealand, while according to the British Monarchy, the Queen, 92, has received everything from glitter balls for the royal Christmas tree to several horses over the decades.

One of the horses gifted to her, called Burmese, is reportedly her favourite.

According to the royal family's gift policy, numerous things can happen to these presents.

They can eat any food given to them and pass along items to charities or their staff that are valued at less than  £150 ($A276).

Other times, gifts can be kept in storage for up to five years or incorporated into the Royal Collection in consultation with curators.

In other instances, the royals share the love, and loan or donate gifts to an organisation.

And, sadly, sometimes the gifts are destroyed or turfed if there's no use for them.

Under the policy, gifts cannot be sold or exchanged and usually they will eventually become part of the Royal Collection, held in trust by the Queen.

But the best gifts are the always the ones that come straight from the heart.

Our favourite moment by far of the royal's Melbourne trip was when India Brown met Prince Harry, and running the risk of getting the duke into trouble by breaking royal protocol she requested a hug.

The hug from Prince Harry was almost too much for India Brown who burst into tears as the prince she has dreamt of meeting since she was a child reached across the barricades outside Melbourne's Government House to embrace her.