A Leeds man paid £1,850 and travelled for ten hours to collect a piece of wedding cake from Prince Charles' wedding to Princess Diana.
Gerry Layton won the piece of cake - one of 23 official wedding cakes made for the 1981 wedding - at an auction earlier this week.
The cake features a sugared design of the royal coat-of-arms coloured in gold, red, blue and silver and has a marzipan base.
Mr Layton made a ten-hour round trip from Leeds to Kemble Railway Station, Gloucestershire, to collect the item from auctioneer Chris Albury.
The auctioneers also gave Mr Layton a fresh fruit cake, which he tucked into on his long journey home.
Mr Albury, auctioneer at Dominic Winter Auctioneers in Cirencester, said: “I’ve handled a number of bizarre things as an auctioneer and valuer over the years – going to Belfast to appraise photographs of the Cottingley fairies, to Vienna for historic photographs of the Cuban Revolution – but this royal cake story will certainly rank up there as one of my most unusual and memorable stories for a very long time.”
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