Why shell out a few hundred clam for a freshwedding cakewhen you could get some ofPrince CharlesandPrincess Diana’snuptial dessert for roughly the same damage ?
AsThe Washington Postreports , a piece of patty from theirroyal weddingin July 1981 is hitting the UK auction block next week , with an estimated Mary Leontyne Price tag of £ 200 to £ 300 ( about $ 300 to $ 400 ) . Dominic Winter Auctioneers does “ advise against corrode it , ” so if your main criterion for patty is edibleness , it might not be worth the money .
It ’s also not , strictly speaking , cake — but rather a thick slab of white icingdecoratedwith “ a sugar onlay of the Royal Coat - of - Arms colored in amber , red , blue , and ash gray , a small silver grey horseshoe and leaf spray contiguous , ” and some other embellishments . The whole thing tips the scales at 28 apothecaries' ounce and measures roughly 8 inch by 7 inches .
Asroyal familyaficionados may already know , Diana and Charles did n’t have just one wedding ceremony bar . The main offering was a 5 - pes - tall , five - level , 225 - Irish pound fruitcake created by the Royal Naval School of Cookery ’s head teacher bread maker . But there were about two dozen other wedding party cakes baked and deal out among important people and topographic point . The icing up for auction bridge is think to have come from one given to the stave at Clarence House , where Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother ( Queen Elizabeth II’smother)lived . ( It ’s now the officialresidenceof Prince Charles and Camilla , Duchess of Cornwall . ) Moyra Smith , a Clarence House faculty member , kept the icing wrap in charge card for yr , and her family sold it in 2008 .
Along with the sweet , the winning bidder will obtain two printed programs : one from Diana and Charles ’s wedding observance at St. Paul ’s Cathedral , and another from the official majestic nuptials breakfast held that 24-hour interval atBuckingham Palace . The springy auction take place on August 11 , and you’re able to find out how to bid onlinehere .
[ h / tThe Washington Post ]
