A piece of 27-year-old cake from the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana has been sold to an anonymous bidder at auction in Britain for £1,200 (NT$69,000).
The slice of marzipan and icing — decorated with the royal coat of arms — came from one of 22 cakes given to royal staff after Charles and Diana’s wedding in July 1981.
It was given to Moyra Smith, a member of the Queen Mother’s household, who kept the topping as a souvenir. When she died, her husband Don saw no reason to keep it.
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“He had no particular feeling for it and will donate the money to several charities,” said auctioneer Dominic Winter in Gloucestershire, in the west of England, who sold the item two weeks ago.
Winter, who usually deals in antique books, said on his Web site: “The slice of cake icing is in remarkably good condition considering the difficulties involved in removing this from the cake.”
“A highly unusual — and probably inedible — collector’s item.”
(AFP)
二十七年前查爾斯王子和黛安娜王妃婚禮上的一塊蛋糕,在英國一場拍賣會上被一位匿名的買主以一千兩百英鎊(新台幣六萬九千元)標下。
這塊飾有英國皇室盾徽的碎杏仁糖霜蛋糕是一九八一年查爾斯和黛安娜婚禮結束後,分送給其他皇室成員二十二塊蛋糕中的其中一塊。
這塊蛋糕當時送給了皇太后的家族成員莫伊拉.史密斯,她把蛋糕上層的裝飾留下來當紀念品。莫伊拉過世後,她的丈夫唐恩覺得沒有必要再保存此物。
拍賣商多明尼克.溫特說:「他對這塊蛋糕沒有什麼特殊的情感,他將把拍賣所得捐給慈善單位。」溫特兩週前在英格蘭西部葛萊斯特郡的拍賣會上賣出此物。
平常多拍賣古董書籍的溫特在他的網站上表示:「有鑑於將蛋糕的糖霜移除不易,這塊糖霜的保存狀況出奇完好。」
「這是一項極特別的收藏品,但它大概已經不能食用了。」
(法新社�翻譯:袁星塵)
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