A slice of cake from the 1981 wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana sold for £1,850 ($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 USA and several countries in the Middle East,” he added in an email.
The successful bidder comes from Leeds in the north of England, Albury said.
The cake was originally given to Moyra Smith, who worked for Queen Elizabeth II’s mother at her Clarence House residence in central London. Following Smith’s death, her family sold it at the same auction house in 2008 for £1,000 to a private collector, who has now sold it at a profit.
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