--- title: Prince William, Kate Middleton Wedding Cake Slice Sold for $7,500 description: The auction house was expecting it to sell for only $1,000 to $2,000. canonical: https://time.com/3622500/prince-william-kate-middleton-cake-auction/ author: Jack Linshi article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-07T20:47:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:15:04.926Z og:title: A Slice of Prince William and Kate Middleton's Wedding Cake Was Sold for $7,500 og:description: It's three years old. og:url: https://time.com/3622500/prince-william-kate-middleton-cake-auction/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A Slice of Prince William and Kate Middleton's Wedding Cake Was Sold for $7,500 twitter:description: It's three years old. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's Why a 3-Year-Old Slice of Cake Just Sold for $7,500 > Sponsored content. 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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) 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. \[[_CNN Money_](http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/06/luxury/royal-family-auction-sold/index.html?hpt=hp%5Ft2)\] ```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"}}]}] ```