A slice of queen victorias wedding cake dating from the 19th century has fetched 1500 at auction. Photos of the final cake and it being made with its final placing in holkham hall for filming.
History And Tradition Of The Wedding Cake 2 Victorian War Time
When the newly married queen victoria returned with prince albert to buckingham palace she was with the prince from 10m.
Wedding cake queen victoria. To 2 till 20 mp2 after which the couple went down for the wedding. James palace on february 10 1840. Then in closing i will discuss the history of wedding cakes including the meanings the various traditions and customs.
Queen victorias wedding was a glorious unifying performance acted out on a national stage. 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. 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.
Weighing in at 300 pounds the english plum cake. The three tiered wedding cake weighed 300 pounds and had decorations including busts of the couple on the top tier. Queen victoria and prince albert of saxe coburg and gotha.
The wedding cake of queen victoria and prince albert was a gargantuan creation weighing in at 300lbs 9ft in circumference and 16 inches high. Photo by hulton archivegetty images as soon as the banquet was over the queen changed into a white silk travelling gown and set off with her new husband for windsor castle. The cake which has survived from queen victorias wedding to prince albert in 1840 was sold.
The diarist charles. Accordingly her cake a delicious seeming confection that was to be seen but not necessarily eaten. Those royals always one upping us.
While its traditional to freeze a slice or top tier of a wedding cake and save it to eat on your first anniversary a slice of queen victorias wedding cake. The wedding of queen victoria and prince albert took place in the chapel royal at st. For allen the people who obsessed over victorias cake became part of the queens wedding performance.
Queen victoria and prince alberts wedding cake 1840 queen victoria married prince albert of saxe coburg and cotha later prince consort on 10 february 1840 it was the first marriage of a reigning english queen for 300 years. Queen victoria and alberts wedding cake consisted of two tiers covered in white royal icing it set a new standard for wedding cake design. Replica wedding cake for the bbc documentary about queen victoria and alberts wedding day made by smiths the bakers.
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Queen Victoria With Monogram Classic Royal Icing Cages Mak Flickr
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