Slice of cake from Charles & Diana's wedding sells for $2000+ at auction - ABC7 News

CNN– A preserved slice of cake from Charles and Diana’s 1981 wedding sold for over $2,000 at an auction.

The dessert weighs about 28 ounces and is a piece of one of the 23 cakes made for the royal wedding, according to the auction company.

It was originally estimated to be valued between £300-£500 ($416-$693), but there was so much interest before the sale on Wednesday that it was impossible to predict what it would sell for, auctioneer Chris Albury told CNN on Thursday. The cake ended up fetching £1,850 ($2,565) at auction.

“It really seemed to capture a lot of people’s imaginations, and wallets,” said Albury, adding: “£1,850 was very unexpected.”

The cake slice features a coat-of-arms colored in gold, red, blue, and silver, a silver horseshoe and leaf spray, as well as some white decorative icing, as reported by CNN.

The slice seems to be from one of the cakes that were sent to the royal staff and It appears to be part of one of the cakes sent to royal staff and was given to Moyra Smith, who worked at Clarence House for the Queen Mother, the auctioneer said.

The slice, which is 40-years-old, has been kept plastic-wrapped in an old cake tin. The item was sold to Dominic Winter Auctioneers in 2008 on behalf of Smith’s family.

“It’s a good sales pitch for clingfilm,” said Albury.

Aside from the white icing fading, the cake has been well preserved, he added.

“It’s an object that’s going to last,” said Albury.

The winning buyer will collect the dessert on Thursday, according to Albury.

The auction came just a few months after Princess Diana’s sons agreed to loan her wedding dress to go on public display at Kensington Palace.

A car Prince Charles gave Princess Diana as an engagement present also recently went up for auction, selling for more than £52,000 ($72,000), CNN reported.

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