33-year-old stale wedding cake fetches $1,375 at auction
Posted: August 30, 2014 - 3:45am

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A 33-year-old slice of cake from Prince Charles and Princess Diana's 1981 wedding has sold at auction for $1,375. The cake, still in its original white and silver presentation box, was sold online Thursday by Nate D. Sanders Auctions of Los Angeles. With the box was a card stating, "With best wishes from Their Royal Highnesses, the Prince & Princess of Wales." Auction house spokesman Sam Heller says the buyer is a private collector. Although the cake came wrapped in its original wax paper, Heller says it wouldn't be a good idea to try to eat it. He adds, however, that there is a small but dedicated group of royal cake collectors. Some, Heller says, have purchased cakes dating to the days of Britain's Queen Victoria, who married in 1840.