Slice of Charles and Camilla’s 17-year-old wedding cake could sell for £600

A slice of this old cake will be selling for around £600 at auction next week (Picture: Julien’s Auctions/REX/Shutterstock)

Would you eat a slice of 17-year-old cake?

We wouldn’t, but fans of the Royal Family could soon feast on a bit of fruit cake from the wedding of King Charles and Camilla, the Queen Consort, which was in 2005.

And it’ll probably cost you just £600 at auction.

An 11-year-old slice of cake from Prince William and Kate’s wedding in 2011 is also expected to sell at the same auction in Norfolk for a similar price.

The portions will be sold next week in souvenir tins, complete with the royal cypher.

Dawn Blunden and Mary Robinson are the Lincolnshire women behind Charles and Camilla’s wedding cake.

Meanwhile, Fiona Cairns from Leicestershire designed Kate and William’s wedding cake – which was an eight-tier fruit cake decorated with Lambeth-piped sugar paste flowers.

Tim Blyth, director at Keys auctioneers, said: ‘With the accession of a new King, and with Prince William subsequently becoming the new Prince of Wales, interest in royal memorabilia is very high at the moment, and we expect there to be brisk bidding for these two slices of history.’

Other lots on sale at the auction will include a Christmas card from Charles and Diana and sons William and Harry, which has a pre-auction estimate of £200 to £300.

Charles, Camilla and guests during the big day in 2005, featuring the late Queen Elizabeth II (Picture: Getty Images)

There will also be a photo album with pictures of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip and other royals, taken on board HM Yacht Britannia which is expected to sell for between £300 and £400.

A signed photo of the late Queen and Prince Philip from 1980 and a Fortnum and Mason Christmas pudding from 2002, complete with a Christmas card from the late Queen and Duke of Edinburgh, are also due to go up for auction.

It is not the first time Royal Family memorabilia has sold at auction.

A painting by Charles recently sold at auction for £5,738.

It depicts Balmoral Castle, the late Queen’s Scotland summer home, where she died on September 8.

It is believed to be the first work sold at auction painted by a reigning monarch.

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