Slice of Diana's wedding cake has sold for almost $1.5k

A slice of Prince Charles and Princess Diana's 1981 wedding cake, still in its original presentation box, has been sold in Los Angeles

Prince Charles and Princess Diana's wedding cake

A piece of wedding cake from the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana in 1981 pictured in 2011.

A 33-year-old slice of cake from Prince Charles and Princess Diana's 1981 wedding has sold at auction for $US1,375 ($A1,487).

The cake, still in its original white and silver presentation box, was sold online on 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.


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