Princess Diana Royal Wedding Cake
David avery head baker at the royal naval cooking school in chatham kent made the cake over 14 weeks.
Princess diana royal wedding cake. It was all about drama and making diana a fairytale princess designer elizabeth emanuel told british vogue earlier this year. Though they had 27 cakes total princess charles and princess dianas main wedding cake was a fruitcake from david avery that had five tiers and weighed over 200 pounds. Wedding of prince andrew duke of york and sarah ferguson 1986.
The naval armed forces supplied the official wedding cake. The last royal wedding to be held at st. It was decorated with charless familys coat of arms the duos initials and flowers like roses and lilies.
Dianas 25 foot train was the longest of any royal wedding dress. The couple also served 27 wedding cakes with the official wedding cake baked by david avery head baker at the royal naval cooking school in kent who made the cake over a period of 14 weeks. The couple had 27 wedding cakes.
The cake was 5ft tall and weighed 255 lbs. Princess diana archivegetty not just one cake would do for prince charles and princess diana who served 27 at their july 29 1981 wedding. Baked by the royal navys cookery school charles and dianas five tiered fruitcake was five feet tall and weighed 255 pounds.
Prince charles princess diana credit. The prince of wales and lady diana spencer 1981 the official wedding cake for the wedding of the prince of wales and lady diana spencer was made by the royal navys cookery school hms pembroke at chatham. A piece of the royal wedding cake was sold in 2018.
Pauls cathedral was 480 years before that of princess diana and prince charles between prince arthur eldest son of king henry vii and princess. Over the night fireworks were displayed above hyde park and 100 beacons were lit up across the country to celebrate the royal wedding. The fruit cake was decorated with charless coat of arms the spencer family crest and flowers including roses lilies of the valley and orchids.