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His favorite cake
For his 70th birthday in 2018, Charles ordered his favorite fruitcake which was provided by luxury bakery Fiona Cairns.
A news post on the baker's website reveals the cake's inspiration: "Fiona and her team got to work designing and decorating the two-tier cake with delicate sugar craft shapes including rare breed animals, hens, a little basket with eggs, and things that reflect the Prince’s country pursuits – hedge laying, dry stone walling, water colour painting, gardening, his racing colours, salmon fishing and polo. The cake was also painted beautifully with meadow flowers and wild grasses."