Slice of Princess Diana's wedding cake auctioned | Lifestyle.INQ

OCTOBER 27, 2022

This photo provided by Nate D. Sanders Auctions shows a slice of Prince Charles and Princess Diana's wedding cake and the original box from July 29, 1981.The 33-year-old slice of cake has sold at auction for $1,375. The cake, still in its original white and silver presentation box, was sold online Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014, by Nate D. Sanders Auctions of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Nate D. Sanders Auctions)
This photo provided by Nate D. Sanders Auctions shows a slice of Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s wedding cake and the original box from July 29, 1981.The 33-year-old slice of cake has sold at auction for $1,375. The cake, still in its original white and silver presentation box, was sold online Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014, by Nate D. Sanders Auctions of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Nate D. Sanders Auctions)

LOS ANGELES— A 33-year-old slice of cake from Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s 1981 wedding has sold at auction for $1,375.

 

The cake, still in its original white and silver presentation box, was sold online Thursday by Nate D. Sanders Auctions of Los Angeles.

 

With the box was a card stating, “With best wishes from Their Royal Highnesses, the Prince & Princess of Wales.”

 

Auction house spokesman Sam Heller says the buyer is a private collector.

 

Although the cake came wrapped in its original wax paper, Heller says it wouldn’t be a good idea to try to eat it.

 

He adds, however, that there is a small but dedicated group of royal cake collectors.

 

Some, Heller says, have purchased cakes dating to the days of Britain’s Queen Victoria, who married in 1840.

 

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