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- When members of the royal family get married, it is tradition for the couple and their guests to preserve a slice of their wedding cake.
- They do this to allow guests the opportunity to auction the cake later and make a quick buck.
- A royal enthusiast bought a slice of Queen Victoria's wedding cake for R16 660.
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Royal families have been known to preserve pieces of their wedding cakes to put them on auction later. However, they are not the only ones who preserve these cakes; guests do the same to make a fortune.
Royal history enthusiasts later buy these cakes.
Last year, Kate and William's 11-year-old wedding cake was also put on auction and was said to fetch between R8 000 to R12 000 in November.
Now, another piece of wedding cake has raked in thousands after unnamed people sold a slice of Queen Victoria's wedding cake.
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In 1840, Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha at St James's Palace on 10 February. The Queen had a plum cake, and a slice of the 182-year-old cake has been sold at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood auctioneers in Devon.
The cake is said to have fetched twice its estimated price and was sold for 700 pounds sterling (R16 662). The slice of cake was still in its original wrapping in a small presenting box written: "The Queen's Bridal Cake, Buckingham Palace, Feb 10, 1840."
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Queen Victoria's wedding cake was a three-tiered plum cake which weighed 136kg and was 3 meters wide. Auctioneer Brian Goodison-Blanks warned the buyer not to eat the wedding cake slice.
"Although the cake was very dry, it still smelled a little bit like cake. You can't get closer to history than that - this is a piece of cake from Queen Victoria's wedding," Brian told ITV News.
