11 Royal Wedding Cakes from Around the World

In April of 1923, the Duke of York, better known as Prince Albert (later known as George VI when he became king, after his brother abdicated the throne in order to marry a divorced American woman named Wallis Simpson) married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, who rejected his marriage proposals twice before agreeing to be his wife. The couple are the parents of Queen Elizabeth II.

In 1934, Prince George, the Duke of Kent, and the future king’s brother, married Princess Marina of Greece. Sadly, less than 10 years later, he would die in a plane crash at the age of 39.

At probably the most celebrated and anticipated royal wedding of the century, Princess Elizabeth, future queen of England, married Phillip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh in 1947. Their cake towered over guests, at a staggering nine feet tall.

The kingdoms of Denmark and Greece united in 1964, when King Constantine married Princess Anne-Marie, youngest daughter of Frederik IX of Denmark. Just three years later, the couple fled to Rome in exile when the military took control of Greece. King Constastine was deposed in 1973, but returned to reside in Greece with his wife in 2013.

Queen Elizabeth II’s only daughter, Princess Anne, married her first husband Captain Mark Phillips in 1973. Phillips declined a courtesy title, usually given to those who marry into the royal family, meaning that their children were also born without titles. The pair separated in 1989, and in 1992, Princess Anne remarried.

The beloved Princess Diana married the heir to throne of England, Prince Charles, in 1981. Their wedding cake weighed 225 pounds. The couple shared two sons, Prince Harry and Prince William, who have captured world’s heart just as their mother did, before Diana’s untimely death in 1997.

In 2004, Crown Prince Hamzah Bin Al Hussein of Jordan married Princess Noor in Amman. Unfortunately the couple divorced just five years later.

Crown Princess Victoria, the heir to the Swedish throne, married a personal trainer and gym owner named Daniel Westling in 2010.

Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III’s son, Prince Albert of Monaco, married an Olympic swimmer from South Africa named Charlene Wittstock in 2011, in what was described as the biggest party in the country—which included this giant pink cake stacked with sparklers—since his parent’s union.

That same year, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton and Prince William, next in line for the throne after his father, were married. 72 million people streamed the event on Youtube, while 26 million people watched on television in the United Kingdom. Six years later, slices of the cake are still up for auction.

In 2015, Prince Carl Philip of Sweden, Crown Princess Victoria’s younger brother, married the model Sofia Hellqvist and shared an elegantly simple cake.