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Battenberg [1] or Battenburg [2] cake is a light sponge cake with variously coloured sections held together with jam and covered in marzipan. In cross section , the cake has a distinctive pink and yellow check pattern .
Because of serious food shortages in post-War Britain, the royal couple felt it was “impossible to accept further offers” [19] beyond 12 cakes. (In comparison, when Queen Victoria married in 1840, she received over 100 wedding cakes). [20] Despite her royal status, Princess Elizabeth required a licence from the Board of Trade to serve ...
The wedding of Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, and Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg took place on Thursday, 31 May 1906, at the Church of Saint Jerome the Royal in Madrid, Spain. The groom was the reigning king of Spain since his birth and the bride was a princess from a cadet branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt and a granddaughter of ...
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A slice of wedding cake from the nuptials of the future Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip — a full 77 years ago — has sold for over four times its expected value at auction.. After being found ...
After a slice from Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip’s wedding cake was discovered under a bed in Scotland, it sold for $2,800 at auction, over four times its expected price. ... James Grinter ...
Lyons' Cafe in Reading, Berkshire, 1945 Lyons' Battenberg cake, produced in the 1930s. The company was a substantial food manufacturer, with factories at Cadby Hall in Hammersmith, and from 1921 at Greenford, producing bread, cakes, pies, tea, coffee and ice cream.
Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg was born on 24 October 1887 at Balmoral Castle, in Scotland.Her father was Prince Henry of Battenberg, the fourth child and third son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine and Julia, Princess of Battenberg, and her mother was Princess Beatrice, the fifth daughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.