Cake slice from Princess Diana and King Charles' wedding sold for £170 at auction
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This is one slice of cake that is certainly not meant for eating. A cake slice from Princess Diana and King Charles' wedding went up for auction after41 years. The two got married in 1981 in London and had over 3,000 guests in attendance.
Amongst them was a guest named Nigel Ricketts who passed away last year but had preserved a slice which is now set to be auctioned. The cake will be auctioned off by Dore and Rees Auctions in the UK. The piece of cake had a pre-sale estimate of £300 which is equivalent to more than Rs27,000.
But it was eventually sold for£170 ( ₹15,864), much lower than the estimates.
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According to reports, although there were 23 official wedding cakes made for the wedding, the slice seems to have come from the centerpiece fruitcake, which had five layers and was a whopping five feet tall.
A slice of the same cake sold for £1,375 in 2014, which is equivalent to more than INR 1,27,000 (as per current day conversion rate.)
According to New York Post, Ricketts and other royal household members pooled together to purchase a writing table for Charles and Diana as a wedding gift, and Charles appeared to be overjoyed by the present.
The Dore and Rees website also has a handwritten thank-you note for the royal staffers. It reads, "Diana and I are touched beyond words that you should have gone to so much trouble to find something so eminently useful...And I can assure you that we will treasure it in whichever house it finally comes to rest!"
Princess Diana and King Charles III got married on July 29, 1981. It was watched by millions of people on TV and was even called the Wedding of the Century',however, the marriage was a turbulent one. Charles and Diana split in 1992, four years before they legally became divorced.
