A 77-year-old slice of wedding cake from the 1947 royal wedding of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip has just been sold ...

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) ...

The couple's cake was nine feet tall, four tiers high, and weighed 500 pounds. Slices of the cake were gifted to royal staff ...

A slice of cake from Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip’s wedding has sold at auction for £2,200.The fruit cake was found ...

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 'incredibly fragile' slither of the alcohol-laced fruit cake was one of 2,000 dished out to guests after the royal wedding on November 20, 1947. The royal couple's lavish cake stood at a ...

After a slice from Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip’s wedding cake was discovered under a bed in Scotland, it sold for $2,800 at auction, over four times its expected price. According to the ...

Polson had bought the newlyweds a dessert service. Secretary Miss Anderton receives ingredients for Princess Elizabeth’s wedding cake, presented by three girls | Central Press/Getty Images Along ...

This is the first slice of Queen Elizabeth’s wedding cake that has been sold “in its completeness” the auction house said, according to the BBC.

The cake, which no longer looks edible, survived for almost eight decades since the wedding day on Nov. 20, 1947.

Royal expert James Grinter said the items up for sale were "very, very rare" The royal couple's lavish cake consisted of four tiers and was laced with alcohol for the wedding on 20 November 1947.