WORLD BRIEFING / BRITAIN
Would you pay $215 for a slice of very stale cake?
That’s what an antiques fair in Birmingham hopes to earn when it puts up for auction a remnant from one of Britain’s most controversial royal weddings, that of Queen Victoria’s fourth daughter, Princess Louise, to a commoner, John Campbell, Marquis of Lorne, in 1871. The cake is thought to be the only surviving item.
It went on sale at the Antiques for Everyone fair in Birmingham. The seller bought the slice from a private seller who is a descendant of a noble family from Kent.
The slice is one inch thick and protected by parchment.
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