Cake From Prince Charles And Camilla's Wedding To Be Auctioned

A slice of wedding cake from Britain's Prince Charles' union with Camilla is to be auctioned. The portion of confectionery is going under the hammer at Andover auction house Hampshire Auctions, but is expected to fetch around 15 times less than a slice from Charles' wedding to the late Princess Diana.

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A spokesman from the auctioneers said: "We are expecting quite a bit of interest."

The wedding cake - from the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall's 2005 nuptials - is still in the presentation box it came in.

It has been valued at £60 to £80 [$100 to $132], and is being sold by a woman known as Diana.

She was gifted the treat by Queen Elizabeth, Charles' mother, as she worked for the royal family when the wedding took place.

The price tag of the cake is dramatically less than the £1,000 [$1650] paid when a portion of the sweet treat from Charles' 1981 wedding to Diana was sold last year.

That piece was kept in the attic of a former servant for 27 years, and had been expected to fetch up to £20,000 [$33,000], even though only icing and marzipan was left.

The nine-inch square treat was given to Moyra Smith, who died last year, when she worked as a servant at Clarence House.

He husband Donald said before the sale: "I'm not as sentimental as Moyra was about these sort of things, but it would be nice to see the cake go to a good home."

A slice of Diana's cake sold for £17,000 [$28,000] when it was auctioned in 1998.