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History of Royal Wedding Cakes Part 1

April 14th 2011 07:05
: Royal wedding
: cakes of the past
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Victoria's 1840 Wedding Cake
With all the interest regarding the upcoming royal wedding, there has been quite a bit of talk about the wedding cake, how it will look and how big it will be.

I thought it would be worth looking at past royal wedding cakes and what made them stand out.

In 1840 Queen Victoria married her Prince Albert and the wedding cake was said to weigh 300lb or nearly 136kg.

The circumference of the cake was 2.7 metres and was covered in the purest white confectionary and on the top of the cake was a 'figure of Britannia in the act of blessing the illustrious bride and bridegroom' according to the 1840 Annual Register.

The wedding of Queen Elizabeth II to Prince Philip saw their cake stand nine feet tall and weigh 500 pounds. It had four tiers and were supported by silver pillars.
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The wedding cake of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip in 1947


Princess Di and Prince Charles were no different with their wedding cake which, despite being only five feet tall, took 14 weeks to complete.

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The wedding cake of Prince Charles and Princess Diana

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