Would YOU
pay £2,000 for a piece of two-year-old cake? Bidding begins as second slice of
Kate and Wills’ wedding cake goes up for auction
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| Elaborate: Kate and William's eight-tiered wedding cake was created by Fiona Cairns |
- First ever piece sold for £1,917 in May
- Pieces from Prince Charles and Diana's wedding as well as Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson also up for auction
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| Perfectly preserved: The cake comes in its original presentation tin with a compliment card from Prince Charles and Camilla |
After raising a staggering £1,917 the first time it appeared
at auction, another piece of cake from the iconic wedding of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge is set to go under the hammer.
The boxed fruit cake, supplied to online auction house PFC
Auctions by an anonymous seller, was among 650 pieces of wedding cake given to
guests at the afternoon reception of the royal wedding held at Buckingham
Palace last April.
The cake, designed by Fiona Cairnes, comes in a presentation
tin commissioned and designed by Peter Windett and Sally Mangum.
Three other slices of royal wedding cake are also set to be
sold that the same auction - a piece of the Royal wedding cake from the 1981
marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, one from the wedding of
Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson in 1986 and a slice of the original wedding
cake from the marriage of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips on 14
November 1973
'These slices of cake are some of the most personal items of royal memorabilia on the market.
'They offer collectors and Royal enthusiasts the chance to
own a highly exclusive item from some of the most celebrated weddings in
history.
'There is a vast community of Royal collectors not just in
the UK, but around the globe and as such we anticipate worldwide interest in
the cake,' said a spokesperson for PFC Auctions.
The demand for Royal memorabilia is reflected in the prices these items tend to bring at auction.
The last piece of Charles & Diana's cake sold at PFC
Auctions of £1,756 in May 2012.
It surpassed the previous record of £1,000, set in August
2008 - corresponding to a 16.20 pa increase.
And it’s not just the cakes that are performing well.
According to the auction house, signed photos of Princess
Diana increased in value by 616% between 2000 and 2012.
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