Official Diamond Jubilee cake(Not Chocolate)

As many of you will already know this weekend we will be celebrating the Queens Diamond Jubilee.Well as I did a feature on the wedding of Wills and Kate and the wonderful cakes that were made for them I decided to scour the web in the hope that a chocolate cake had been made to commemorate this great event and occasion.To no avail I'm afraid to say! However I felt I could not let this Cake slip by unnoticed even though it is not chocolate .This is the Official Diamond jubilee Cake created by the instructors at the Defence Food Services at Worthy Down,and was presented to Queen as the official Diamond Jubilee Cake at a event on May 19th at Windsor castle.The cake itself has taken over 6 weeks and 500 hours to make it weighs around 154lb or 70kg.The crown is made entirely of sugar,and the cake itself reflects the Silver,Golden and Diamond jubilees,the Royal Navy , the Army and Royal Air Force.For any of you that ever worked with pasttilage I am...