Almost 27 years after her marriage with Prince Charles, a slice of Princess Diana’s wedding cake goes under the hammer and is expected to fetch up to 20,000 pounds.
The Princess of Wales gave the nine-inch square piece of the cake, along with a letter signed by Diana and a bottle of beer, to Moyra Smith in 1981 when she worked as a cleaner for the Queen Mother.
Wrapped up in a metal tin, the slice has remained in the loft of Smith’s London home ever since. She died last month, aged 78, and it was her dying wish for it to be sold.
In 1998, a year after Diana’s death in a car crash in Paris, a similar slice was sold for 17,000 pounds.
“Moyra was an amazing woman. I’m not as sentimental as she was about these sort of things, but I would be nice to see the cake go to a good home. I heard the last slice went for a fortune so that would be great for our charity,” Moyra’s husband was quoted by the ‘Daily Mail’ as saying.
Diana memorabilia specialist auctioneer Chris Albury, from Dominic Winter, said the cake was the biggest piece he had ever seen.
“This piece is special because it was from the cake sent to the Queen Mother at Clarence House. I have seen lots of smaller pieces before but never one straight from the Royal Household.
“The decorative sugar icing of the royal coat of arms on top of the cake is very skilled and while there is some cracking and damage it is in remarkably good condition,” he said.
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