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Wedding Cakes
Cake from wedding of
Her Royal Highness Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg
and Gotha,
The confectioner in
the Royal Establishment at Buckingham Palace created the Royal
Wedding Cake for the marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
in 1840. It was described as “consisting of the most exquisite
compounds of all the rich things with which the most expensive
cakes can be composed, mingled and mixed together into delightful
harmony by the most elaborate science of the confectioner.”
The royal cake weighed nearly 300 pounds and was three yards in
circumference. The masterpiece was about fourteen inches in depth
or thickness. The wedding cake was showcased upon an elegant “superstructure”
and cost more than £100.
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Cake from wedding of
Elizabeth Bowes Lyon (later The Queen Mother) and Prince Albert
, Duke of York, (later King George VI).
Their cake was put on display in Reading, England, prior to their
April 26, 1923, nuptials. Hordes of onlookers queued up to vie
for a view of the ornate, 10-ft. tall confection.
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Cake from wedding of
Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II and Philip Mountbatten
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The official wedding
cake was made by McVities and Price, although eleven other cakes
were given as presents. With post-war food rationing still in
place, ingredients were sent as wedding presents from overseas.
The official cake was made using ingredients given as a wedding
gift by Australian Girl Guides.
With intent to pay
homage to history in his design of Queen Elizabeth’s 1947
confection, a “cake architect”—complete with clinical
white lab coat—surveys a replica of the Queen Mother’s
cake. The original was served in April of 1923.Pieces of cake
and food parcels were later distributed to schoolchildren and
institutions.
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Cake from wedding of
Her Royal Princess Margaret Countess of Snowden and Anthony Armstrong
Jones
Five feet tall, 150
pounds, and marked by hexagonally paneled tiers, the cake of Princess
Margaret and Lord Snowdon was marked by three massive layers,
in lieu of many small ones. The sides of each tier bore the Princess’s
coat of arms and the couple’s new monogram.
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Cake from wedding of
Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips
The November 1973 cake
of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips was helped skyward
with silver tiers, supporting the weight of the cake and all that
icing—an army caterer is seen piping on ever more.
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Cake from wedding of
His Royal Highness Prince Charles , Prince of Wales and Lady Diana
Spencer
The cake of Lady Diana
Spencer and Prince Charles had a whiff of modernity, with its
architectural, temple-esque facets and spare, columnar supports.
But all the geometry is somewhat mitigated by its crown—a
big old thicket of regal blooms. Chief Petty Officer Cook David
Avery poses with the dessert in July of 1981.
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Cake from wedding of
Prince Andrew, Duke of York and Miss Sarah Ferguson
There’s stale
wedding cake, and then there’s petrified—we’re
pretty sure the top tier of the wedding cake served at the July
1986 wedding of Prince Andrew to Sarah, Duchess of York, was in
a rather calcified condition by 1997, when it was auctioned for
charity.
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Cake from wedding of
HRH Prince Edward & Miss Sophie-Rhys Jones.
Dispensing with a customary
English wedding fruitcake, Prince Edward and his bride selected
a seven-tier Devil's Food cake for their June 19, 1999, wedding.
Topped with tennis rackets (in a nod to the fund-raiser where
the couple met), the 10-ft. tall confection took baker Linda Fripp
and her staff 515 hours to create. Continuing to break with tradition,
the Earl and Countess of Wessex cut their cake prior to serving
dinner – something that was downright 21st century.
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Cake from wedding of
His Royal Highness Prince William of Wales and Miss Catherine
Middleton
The confectionery masterpiece
covered in cream and white icing and decorated with up to 900
delicate sugar-paste flowers was centre-stage at the Buckingham
Palace reception held in the picture gallery.
The project has left cake-maker Fiona Cairns exhausted but elated
after working for five weeks on it which has tested her skills
and those of her team to the limit.
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