PRINCESS' FOUR TIER CAKE
Eeceived SuncTay, 8.50 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 5. The badges of New Zealand, Australia, Canada, South Africa, India and Pakistan will be on the fourth tier of Princess Elizabeth's fourtier wedding cake, says the Baker's National Association Eeview. The first tier will carry a representation of the "bride, the groom, Windsor and Balmoral Castles and Buckingham Palace. The second tier will depict the casket which the Freemen of Windsor presented to the Princess as Colonel-in-Chief of the G-renadier Guards, also night hattle scenes of Cape Matapan, musical emblems and decorations illustrating tennis, cricket and racing. The third tier will Have faces showing the Eoyal Navy crest, A.T.S. and Girl Guides' badges an^ a model of H.M.S. Valiant in which Lieutenant Mountbatten served at Matapan, also a figure of cnpid holcling a shield on which are the bride 's and groom 's initials. A globe bearing the names of all the British Commonwealth countries will be set on top of the cake with a vase of flowers surmounting it. The cake to meet austerity conditions has been considerably reduced in size and weight from the original design. All the ingredients come from the Dominions and other Empire coimtries.
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 October 1947, Page 5
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