Cake, ma'am? Queen Elizabeth's wedding cake up for auction

[chavita]

Cake, ma'am? Queen Elizabeth's wedding cake up for auction alongside signed Princess Diana engagement thank-you letter

A vintage piece of cake from the wedding of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh - then Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten - is going under the hammer.
The boxed fruit slice, presented in its original Buckingham Palace case dated 20 November 1947, is accompanied by a compliments slip reading: 'With the best wishes of Their Royal Highnesses The Princess Elizabeth and The Duke of Edinburgh'.
The rare, 65-year-old piece of memorabilia is being sold online auction house PFC Auctions alongside another royal lot: a signed letter from a young Lady Diana Spencer thanking two girls for their congratulations her upon her 1981 engagement to Prince Charles.

[Windsor]

It amazes me how a piece of cake can be used as an item of royal memorabilia.  :eyes:

[chavita]

I was thinking the same thing. :lol:

[Windsor]

There truly are some weird people out there.  :teehee:

[corydora]

I'm wondering how it has survived all these years. Maybe in a freezer.

[chavita]

Slice of Queen's wedding cake sells for just £560 at auction - while a slice of Kate and Wills' went for £1,917

A piece of cake from the wedding of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh - then Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten - has sold at auction for £560.
This is a small sum compared to a slice of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's wedding cake, which raised a staggering £1,917 the first time a slice appeared at auction in May 2011.
The boxed fruit slice - snapped up by when the auction ended at around 7pm lat night - was presented in its original Buckingham Palace case dated 20 November 1947. It also came with a compliments slip reading: 'With the best wishes of Their Royal Highnesses The Princess Elizabeth and The Duke of Edinburgh'.