Piece of cake from King Charles and Princess Diana's 1981 wedding now for sale

A slice of fruit cake from the wedding of Princess Diana and King Charles is now set to be auctioned - 41 years after the royal ceremony which took place in 1981.

The piece was given to Nigel Ricketts, then an employee at the Royal household, who kept it safe in its original presentation box till he passed away last year, the Daily Mail reported.

The cake is reportedly still in very good form and shape largely because of all that alcohol which went into making it.


There were 23 cakes officially made for the wedding, and this piece seemed to have come from the big five-tiered one at the centre of the ceremony

The cake will be auctioned off by Dore and Rees Auctions in the UK, and is estimated to sell at much more than the pre-estimate price of 300 pounds (roughly Rs. 27,000)

A slice of the same cake sold for 1,375 pounds - four times more than this one's pre-estimate price - in 2014, according to a report in the New York Post.

Nigel Ricketts and other royal household members had pooled together to purchase a writing table for Charles and Diana as a wedding gift and the royals thanked them with a piece of the wedding cake and a hand-written note.

"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!" the note read.

Princess Diana and King Charles III got married on July 29, 1981, in a globally televised ceremony known as the 'Wedding of the Century.' The marriage, however, did not last and the couple split in 1992, four years before they legally became divorced.