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Description: | The Bride cake was designed to reflect Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon's ancestry. The cake had four tiers and was almost eight feet tall. The bottom tier included two sugar lions modelled on those carved on the fireplace in the dining hall of Glamis Castle, the Bowes-Lyon family estate. There was also a reproduction of Windsor Castle as viewed from Eton College. The second tier had three panels containing the Strathmore family crest, the crest of the Royal Air Force and the Naval Crown. Around the top was a relief copy of Glamis Castle. The third tier had alcoves with little Cupids ringing bells of happiness and on the top was a reproduction of a sundial in the gardens at Glamis. The top tier represented a feudal tower around which were listed the eighteen families with which Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon's ancestors were connected by marriage. On the top of the cake was a silver vase containing a bouquet including York roses. A model of the cake was displayed at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924. | 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: | Huntley | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | cake Duke of York social history trade Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon royalty | Temporal: | start=1923-04-26; end=1923-04-26; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Baker Perkins Ltd | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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