Kate Middleton & Prince William's Wedding Cake Baker Reveals Awkward Moment with the Queen | PEOPLE

Kate Middleton and Prince William's extraordinary wedding cake required some tricky maneuvering at Buckingham Palace.

Fiona Cairns, who led the team behind the royal couple's wedding cake in 2011, appeared on ITV's new documentary The Day Will and Kate Got Married to discuss the behind-the-scenes difficulties to get the eight-tiered, three feet-tall fruit cake design into the reception venue — which just happened to be Queen Elizabeth's royal residence in London.

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Kate Middleton & Prince William's Wedding Cake Baker Reveals Awkward Moment with the Queen | PEOPLE

[swampfoxtaylor]

Pretty sure the Queen was joking when she said that. She has a fabulous sense of humor. Nobody is going to "dismantle" anything in the
palace without permission to do so.

[davidtaylor]

Here's a fun fact... the taxes from the people in England paid for this

[russelfurtado]

If this was Megan and Harry wedding cake, the media would be having a total twist on the report. Like, "how dare Megan order such a big cake that the door had to be taken a part in order to get the cake in."