All the Cakes Royals Have Served at Their Weddings

As mentioned, Meghan and Harry went with the untraditional choice that is lemon and elderflower. Royal wedding cakes are generally fruit-forward, so the floral-y addition was unexpected. Also different was the presentation: Instead of a massive, cleanly-iced monster, the cake — made by Violet Cakes's Claire Ptak — was unstacked and roughly finished, which makes it all the more Pinterest-worthy, tbh.

There are no pictures of the final product that was Charles and Camilla's wedding cake, but it was, indeed, a fruitcake, and it was made by the delightful woman you see here: Etta Richardson. Per Etta, this was exactly the kind of cake served at the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall's reception.

These two reportedly served 27 (!) cakes at their wedding. Twenty-seven cakes! This bad boy was the showstopper, though, and it was a 5-foot-tall — wait for it — fruitcake.

Fruitcake! F-R-U-I-T-C-A-K-E! A 5-foot-six-inch fruitcake! (That's how tall Anne was on her wedding day, if you must know the significance.)

This (fruit)cake came in at a measly 150 pounds and had both her family's and her and Tony's new coat of arms paneled onto the sides. Psh!

Alright, a queen's wedding cake is an entirely different story. Sure, it was a fruitcake, but it was a 9-foot-tall, 500 pound fruit cake. A cake of that size served more than 2,000 people. All this despite the fact that Lil and Phil were married just after the end of World War II, meaning most of their wedding plans were made with rations in mind.