To accommodate her guests and throngs of royal relatives, Queen Victoria needed multiple wedding cakes—one of which weighed nearly 300 pounds and measured three yards in circumference (left). In 2007, a mummified fragment of Victoria's cake was discovered in the Royal Archives and displayed during Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Wedding Jubilee.
Royal Wedding
British Royal Wedding Cakes
From Queen Victoria's 300-pound showstopper to Charles and Diana's towering confection, see the lavish wedding cakes from England's royal nuptials.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert (1840)
- Keywords:
- royal wedding,
- kate middleton,
- prince william,
- celebrity weddings
