A piece of cake from Diana and Prince Charles' wedding is on auction!
A large slice of marzipan icing and base from one of the 23 official wedding cakes contains a sugar topping in the shape of the royal coat of arms in gold, red, blue, and silver.
A piece of the wedding cake of the Prince and Princess of Wales will be auctioned off 40 years after their fateful ‘yes’. Thursday is the anniversary of the royal wedding from a fairy tale, when the heir to the British crown married the shy 20-year-old Lady Diana Spencer, on July 29, 1981, in London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral.
But their marital happiness did not last: they separated 11 years later, in 1992, and officially divorced in 1996. A large slice of marzipan icing and base from one of the 23 official wedding cakes contains a sugar topping in the shape of the royal coat of arms in gold, red, blue, and silver.
It was given to Moyra Smith, a member of the Queen Mother’s household at Clarence House, who preserved the topping in cling film. She kept it in an old flower cake tin and glued a hand-made label to the lid that read, 'Handle it carefully - the wedding cake of Prince Charles and Princess Diana', which she signed and dated.
