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.

A “very rare” 77-year-old slice of the cake served at Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip’s wedding sold for £2,200 ($2,800) this week, according to auction house Reeman Dansie.

Seven decades after Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip’s wedding day — November 20, 1947 — a piece of their celebratory cake has been sold. The cake slice was recently sold at auction for more than £2,

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 went up for auction.

A 77-year-old piece of wedding cake, found forgotten in a suitcase, has brought in about $3,000 at auction. Read more trending news The slice of fruit cake wasn’t any wedding cake. It was from the wedding of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip,

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