Princess Diana's wedding cake sold

A slice of cake from the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana has sold at auction for £180.

The shrivelled slice of 30-year-old iced fruitcake was put up for sale by New Zealand woman Katrina Greenslade on auction website Trade Me.

She had claimed her father received the cake while working at an airbase in Christchurch in 1981.

The winner, known only as Paul, managed to out-bid a string of royal fans who vied to snap up the cake, which attracted over 40,000 hits on the site.

Katrina wrote on the auction site: "The story goes that one of the wedding cake tiers was given to the RNZAF (Royal New Zealand Air Force) and one fifth came to Wigram and was divided up so that as many people as possible would get a taste.

"Lots were drawn and those whose name came out of the hat were allowed a minuscule piece.

"My father won a bite and he joined the queue near the end of the tasters and sitting left on the plate was a piece of icing. He took this icing, instead of a little piece of the cake he was offered, and took it home to show us."

The seller admitted that the icing had discoloured and had sat for the past four years in a Tupperware container in the drawer of her china cabinet.

She said: "It smells like a piece of 30-year-old cake that has lived in a Tupperware container."