- Avarna Jain,
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A 77-Year-Old Slice Of Queen Elizabeth’s Wedding Cake Was Auctioned For INR 2 Lakh!
Talk about valuable royal memorabilia!
Royal weddings never fail to make waves. Whether it wasPrincess Diana and King Charles’ lavish wedding back in 1981or thenever-ending nuptials of India’s modern-day royalty The Ambanis, there’s always something newsworthy happening. Now, almost 77 years later, Queen Elizabeth II’s royal wedding to Phillip Mountbatten has made headlines again. A piece of cake from Queen Elizabeth’s wedding was recently auctioned off for $2,800 (nearly INR 2.4 Lakh)!
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The late royals got married in a ceremony back in November 1947 in Westminster Abbey where a nine-foot-tall fruit cake was served to the 2,000 guests in attendance. A slice of the wedding cake was presented to Marion Polson, a housekeeper at Edinburgh’s Palace of Hollyroodhouse after she gifted the newlyweds a dinner service. Polson kept the cake slice as a memento with her until she passed away in the 1980s when her family placed it in a suitcase underneath a bed in Scotland.
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The cake, preserved in its original box with the letter written by the queen, was put up for auction by the Polson family. The letter by the royal, dated November 1947, read, “My husband and I are deeply touched to know that you shared in giving us such a delightful wedding present. We are both enchanted with the dessert service; the different flowers and the beautiful colouring will, I know, be greatly admired by all who see it.”
According toBBC, the “very, very rare” slice of cake is the first piece ever sold “in its completeness”. Reportedly, the cake was sold to a Chinese bidder at the auction by the Essex-based Reeman Dansie Auction House.
The cake, to nobody’s surprise, is intact but in no shape or form fit to be consumed. It’s, however, a rare piece of royal memorabilia that, as James Ginter of the auction house says, is “a little time capsule of glorious cake”. Indeed!
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