A souvenir tin containing a slice of King Charles and the Queen Consort’s wedding cake is expected to fetch up to £600 at auction.
The royal couple married in a civil ceremony on April 9, 2005 at Windsor Guildhall which was followed by a blessing at St. George’s Chapel.
In the evening, the pair – who held the titles the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall at the time – hosted their reception in Windsor Castle‘s state apartments.
The King and Queen Consort’s impressive fruit cake was made by Dawn Blunden, owner of the Sophisticake cake shop in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire.
The bakery owner later revealed that the enormous cake required 1,080 eggs and 20 bottles of brandy to make.
The blue-and-pink tins have the couple’s wedding date written on the lid and their shared initial running around the outside.
Next week, the historic desert portion will go under the hammer at Keys auctioneers in Aylsham, Norfolk, as part of their three-day Fine Sale.
The King and Queen Consort pictured in the White Drawing Room of Windsor Castle on their wedding day, April 9, 2005. A slice of their fruit cake is expected to fetch up to £600 at auction later this month
2,500 slices of the wedding cake were kept in this commemorative tins. The tins feature an illustration of the couple’s wedding date and have their shared initial running around the outside
The enormous fruit cake required 1,080 eggs and 20 bottles of brandy to make. The King and Queen Consort’s impressive fruit cake was made by Dawn Blunden, owner of the Sophisticake cake shop in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire.
A slice of the Prince and Princess of Wales’ eight-tier fruit cake, which was topped with sugar paste flowers, from their 2011 wedding will also be among the pieces going up for sale.
Tim Blyth, director at Keys, 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.’
Writing on her website, Dawn Blunden explained how her team were commissioned the King and Queen Consort’s wedding cake after sending the then Prince of Wales some samples to try.
The baker’s son Darren has cooked for the King in his career and mentioned his mother’s business to the royal – which prompted Charles to ask Dawn to put forward three different types of cakes they could sell in his Highgrove gift shop.
A slice of the Prince and Princess of Wales’ wedding cake is also included in the items being auctioned off. Their fruit cake is housed in a white-and-gold tin
The Prince and Princess of Wales wave from the Buckingham Palace balcony on their wedding day on April 29, 2011
She wrote: ‘Several months later we were asked to attend a meeting at Clarence House in London to discuss the wedding cake.
‘Having secured the commission, we were given just four weeks notice to plan, bake and decorate not only the huge wedding cake itself but 2,500 slices of additional cake for special commemorative tins, all the while keeping the whole thing secret!’
In total, it took 130 hours to coat and decorate the cake with sugar roses, leeks, daffodils and thistles, which represent England, Scotland and Wales.
Three weeks after the wedding, King Charles sent the bakery owner a thank you note.
The rectangular portion – which has hardly deteriorated despite the decades passed – is thought to have come from the bottom layer of the impressive five tier dessert
A slice of fruit cake served at King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales’ wedding went up for sale last month – 41 years after the famed 1981 ceremony watched by millions
He wrote: ‘I can’t tell you how much my wife and I are enjoyed eating pieces of wedding cake for tea each afternoon. It really is delicious!’
Last month, a slice of the fruit cake that was served at Prince Charles and Diana’s 1981 wedding was also put up for auction.
It was given to Nigel Ricketts, who served as the French polisher in the Royal household at the time and kept a piece – in its original presentation box – for the rest of his life.
The lid of the small container has the Prince of Wales’ insignia along with the initials C and D in calligraphy writing and ‘Buckingham Palace 29th July 1981.’