LADY MAY'S DESIGN

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 120, 17 November 1931, Page 13

LADY MAY'S DESIGN

ROYAL WEDDING CAKES

A sft high wedding cake was made in a bakehouse in the ancient Rows, Chester, where modern wedding cakes originated, for the marriage of Lady May Cambridge to Captain Henry Abel Smith at Balcombe, Sussex, on 24th October (states the "Daily Mail". Lady May Cambridge laid down tho general design. She told the architect in almond paste and icing sugar (who has made more, cakes for Royal weddings than any other baker in the world) that it must be designed on simplified lines, and must bear representations of hunting scenes, tho crest of her husband's regiment, the Royal Horse Guards, and their initials intertwined. ■ The supercake designer was Mr. ired Humphreys, of Messrs. R. Bolland and Sons, Ltd., Chester. The cake was in three tisrs, on a massive silver base, and weighed more than 801b. The bottom tier alone weighed 501b, tho second 251b, and the third 101b. HUNTING FKESCOES. Tho walls of tho tiers were decorated with hunting frescoes; on tho second tier toy soldiers wearing the accoutrements and uniforms o- tho Royal Horse Guards proudly marched between marble columns; while cherubs and angels reclined on the top tijr in painted silk panels. Hundreds of brides will bo interested in one secret which Mr. Benyon revealed. Ho said that when a bride at a fashionable wedding cuts tho cake with her husband's sword, she places it in n cut which has been previously prepared.