The Prince of Wales cut a 50 pound cake made in the form of the FRI building to mark the 84th anniversary of the building’s inauguration.
According to an employee of the Standard Bakers, from where the cake was supplied, the cake had chocolate, blueberry and black currant flavours. “Four persons baked the cake in 24 hours. The cake cost Rs 50,000,” said the bakery employee.
Charles had expressed his wish to visit Doon and since FRI and IMA were the oldest signs of the British here, he also visited the institute. lady Irwin, the wife of the then viceroy of India lord Irwin, who had inaugurated the institute building in 1929, used to tell him about this place during his childhood.