A spe­cial blend of An­gos­tu­ra rum and a tenor steel­pan will be pre­sent­ed to Prince William and Kate Mid­dle­ton as a wed­ding gift from T&T's High Com­mis­sion­er to the Unit­ed King­dom Garvin Nicholas.

The Roy­al wed­ding takes place to­mor­row at West­min­ster Abbey, Lon­don. The gifts will be pre­sent­ed by Nicholas on be­half of the Gov­ern­ment and peo­ple of T&T.

A me­dia re­lease from the T&T High Com­mis­sion in Lon­don yes­ter­day stat­ed Nicholas would be pre­sent­ing the Roy­al cou­ple with the unique rum blend spe­cial­ly brewed for the wed­ding and a spe­cial­ly brand­ed tenor pan sup­plied by Nestor Sul­li­van, man­ag­er of the Pam­beri Steel Or­ches­tra. Nicholas de­scribed the spe­cial blend as a "lux­u­ri­ous rum from Trinidad and To­ba­go that ex­udes a com­plex aro­ma of hints of caramel, spice, choco­late, ba­nana, with a smooth lin­ger­ing taste of ap­ples and tof­fee mel­lowed out with hints of vanil­la." The tenor pan was craft­ed by Au­gus­tus Pe­ters, of La Canoa Road, San­ta Cruz. The pan case and chrome stand were done by Sarah's Pan Case, of East­ern Main Road, San Juan.

Nicholas said: "It is hoped that these two gifts, the first which rep­re­sents our finest rum by a com­pa­ny that has proven it­self in­ter­na­tion­al­ly and sec­ond­ly our na­tion­al in­stru­ment, the on­ly mu­si­cal in­stru­ment to be in­vent­ed in the last cen­tu­ry, will help to fur­ther mar­ket our na­tion and its prod­ucts, as well as sig­nal our com­mit­ment to strong bi-lat­er­al re­la­tions for the next gen­er­a­tion of Roy­als." In a tele­phone in­ter­view yes­ter­day, Nicholas said it was a great ho­n­our to rep­re­sent T&T at such a high­ly pres­ti­gious event that will draw mil­lions of on­look­ers world­wide.