The "very, very rare" piece of fruit cake sold for four times the expected amount when it went under the hammer

Would you eat 40-year-old wedding cake? A wealthy bidder recently bought a slice of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip's wedding-day dessert.

Almost eight decades later, an iconic royal wedding is back in the news. The late Queen Elizabeth II memorably married Philip Mountbatten in Westminster Abbey on November 20, 1947, in front of 2,000 guests—and an unexpected memento from the ceremony just ...

A "very rare" slice of wedding cake from the marriage of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip has sold at auction for £2,200. The fruit cake was found under a bed in a suitcase, 77 years after the original 9ft (2.