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Title: Royal Wedding cake for Princess Elizabeth, 1947 [Go to resource]
Description: Huntley & Palmers made the cake for Princess Elizabeth's marriage to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, R.N. on 20 November 1947. The cake had six sides and was four tiers high with an image on each side of every tier. On the top tier were the crests from countries of the commonwealth. The other tiers included images of the Royal family and places with royal association. The icing department, headed by Jack Bryant, worked continuously for three weeks on the cake which was originally designed to weigh 400lb! In the end Buckingham Palace requested a reduced 'austerity' cake of only 195lb! Format: image/jpeg License: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 Publisher: Planet News Ltd Rights holder: Planet News Ltd Subjects: cake
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Elizabeth (HRH Princess)Temporal: start=1947-01-01; end=1947-12-31; Source: Sense of place SE Identifier: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... Language: en-GB Format: image/jpeg Go to resource More Like this...
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