Forty-year-old slice of Charles and Diana wedding cake sold for nearly £2,000 at auction
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukGet the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing A 40-year-old slice of cake from the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana has sold for nearly £2,000.
The large piece of iced marzipan is from one of the 23 cakes made for the Prince and Princess of Wales' wedding. It features a sugared onlay of the royal coat-of-arms coloured in gold, red, blue and silver.
Today (August 11), four decades after the Royal Wedding, it fetched £1,850 at auction - despite auctioneers predicting it would be bought for between £300 and £500.
The cake went under the hammer at Dominic Winter Auctioneers in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, and was purchased by an online buyer in Leeds after a flurry of bids from across the world.
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