The Royal Wedding Cake
c. 1840Hand-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.