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Royal weddings 1840-1947: From Queen Victoria to Queen Elizabeth II : Windsor Castle Drawings Gallery
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    AFTER SARSFIELD TAYLOR, W. B. (FL.1840)

    THE ROYAL WEDDING CAKE. Her most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria and His Royal Highness Prince Albert Married February 10th 1840.

    c. 1840

    Hand-coloured lithograph | 50.6 x 39.8 cm (whole object) | RCIN 750872

    Mr John Mauditt, Queen Victoria’s confectioner at Buckingham Palace, made this wedding cake. It was on a vast scale measuring around 3 metres in circumference and weighing more than 140 kg. The allegorical figure of Britannia stands at the top blessing the figures of the bride and groom.

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