When Charles married Princess Diana in 1981, the couple did not know what the future would hold for them. As people were given a chance to taste their magnificent wedding cake, a slice of cake was kept safe by Nigel Ricketts- one of the guests.
The French polisher worked at the Windsor castle and passed away earlier this year, leaving behind a slice of the five-feet-tall cake from Charles and Diana’s wedding.
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The cake then went up for sale with a pre-sale estimate of £300 ( ₹28,000), according to the Dore and Rees website. It was eventually sold for £170 ( ₹15,864), way below the estimated price.
The cake slice was from the centrepiece fruitcake which had five layers- one of the 23 official wedding cakes that were prepared for the couple’s wedding. In 2014, a slice of the same cake was sold for £990 ( ₹92,389 at current rate).
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The boxed slice of cake had “Buckingham Palace” and the wedding date stamped on it.
Charles and Diana’s marriage- which ended in divorce in 1996- was watched by hundreds of millions of people with the BBC saying that it is still one of the most watched programmes.
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Princess Diana died in a car crash one year after her divorce to the then Prince Charles. Charles- now King Charles III- later married Camilla Parker Bowles.
