Slice of Charles and Diana wedding cake sells for US$2,500
- The 40-year-old slab of marzipan and thick white icing decorated with the royal coat of arms was sold at auction with a warning not to eat it
- The sale is the latest example of the continued fascination with Princess Diana, who died aged 36 in a high-speed car crash in Paris in 1997
A slice of cake from the 1981 wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer sold for £1,850 (US$2,558) at auction in Britain on Wednesday – with a warning not to eat it.
The 40-year-old slab of marzipan and thick white icing decorated with the royal coat of arms fetched more than three times its asking price of £300 to £500.
“We were amazed at the numbers of people wanting to bid on this large and unique piece of royal cake icing,” said auctioneer Chris Albury, a royal memorabilia specialist at Dominic Winter Auctioneers in Cirencester, western England.
“There were lots of enquiries from bidders, mostly in the UK, the US and several countries in the Middle East,” he added in an email.
The successful bidder was named in British media as Gerry Layton from Leeds in the north of England.