Dave Hill
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s choice of an east London bakery to make their wedding cake brings a long-term relationship between poshness and privation to a royal climax. When the betrothed picked Violet, a café and bakery on a fairly quiet street at the edge of Dalston in Hackney, to produce the star patisserie for their big day, it was a symbolic consummation of what some see as wholesome progress and others as wholesale colonisation.