A slice of wedding cake from the nuptials of the late Lady Diana and Prince Charles has been put up for auction and sold by a former employee of the royal household, who stored it in cling film inside a metal tin in her attic for an amazing twenty-seven years.

The slice which measured twenty-three centimetres, was a marzipan base covered in icing which displayed the royal coat of arms. It had been a gift to a member of staff who worked at Clarence House for the Queen Mother ,and was a segment of one of twenty-three formal wedding cakes commissioned for the royal wedding.

The employee had recently passed away and left her family specific instructions that in the event of her death the cake should be sold and the proceeds donated to charity.

The official auctioneers’ description of the rare lot read:-

“In view of its size, it is most likely that it was either from the side of a cake, or from the top of a single-tier cake. A highly unusual (and probably inedible) collector’s item.”

The cake sold for $1,830 which equates to a value of around £1,000 to an anonymous bidder together with a typed memo signed by both Charles and Diana expressing thanks to the employee for a wedding gift that they had received from staff members of the royal household.

Tags: Cake, cake autction, royal wedding cake, Wedding

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