--- description: The auction house was expecting it to sell for only $1,000 to $2,000. title: A Slice of Prince William and Kate Middleton's Wedding Cake Was Sold for $7,500 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Here's Why a 3-Year-Old Slice of Cake Just Sold for $7,500  by [Jack Linshi](/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 7, 2014 8:47 PM CUT  by [Jack Linshi](/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 7, 2014 8:47 PM CUT A slice of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding cake from their iconic 2011 marriage was auctioned off Friday for $7500. Julien’s Auctions was expecting the piece of eight-tier fruit cake, which comes in a tin with a blank wedding invitation on the Queen’s stationary, to sell for only $1,000 to $2,000, [_CNN Money_](http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/06/luxury/royal-family-auction-sold/index.html?hpt=hp%5Ft2 "undefined") reported. The auction house had bought the cake slice from one of the wedding’s guests. Julien’s previously sold a slice of cake from the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana for just over $6,000, the auction house told _CNN_. At that time, the cake was about 27 years old. The auction also featured five of Princess Diana’s dresses, which sold for a total of over $458,000. \[[_CNN Money_](http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/06/luxury/royal-family-auction-sold/index.html?hpt=hp%5Ft2 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3622500/prince-william-kate-middleton-cake-auction/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3622500/prince-william-kate-middleton-cake-auction/"},"headline":"Here's Why a 3-Year-Old Slice of Cake Just Sold for $7,500","datePublished":"2014-12-07T20:47:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:15:04.926Z","description":"The auction house was expecting it to sell for only $1,000 to $2,000","url":"https://time.com/3622500/prince-william-kate-middleton-cake-auction/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jack Linshi","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3622500/prince-william-kate-middleton-cake-auction/","name":"Here's Why a 3-Year-Old Slice of Cake Just Sold for $7,500"}}]}] ```