On Tuesday last week the Queen and Prince Philip celebrated their Diamond Wedding Anniversary. Congratulations on 60 years of marriage.
To mark the occasion Buckingham Palace released 60 facts about the wedding.
As well as the official wedding cake which was nine feet high in four tiers the couple received eleven other cakes as wedding presents.
With post-war food rationing still in place ingredients were sent as wedding presents from overseas, for example the official cake was made using ingredients given as a wedding gift by Australian Girl Guides. Pieces of cake and food parcels were later distributed to schoolchildren and institutions.
One local resident's relative was part of a group of workers at W and R Jacob and Company's Aintree factory who despatched a cake to the couple. J V Swinburn, whose descendants eventually moved to Preston, made the moulds in which the cake was baked. The cake weighed about 135lbs and was mounted on a base of solid silver.
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