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Auction Winner Reveals Plan to Eat His $36K Slice of 1947 Royal Wedding Cake

The entrepreneur and British royal family superfan says he has a cunning scheme to get rid of any bacteria.

A man who won a $36,000 slice of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip’s wedding cake at auction says he fully intends to eat the nearly 80-year-old dessert. An entrepreneur and British Royal Family superfan (because you’d have to be), Gerry Layton says he’ll be tucking into the cake at a lavish replica state banquet on his 65th birthday next year, which he hopes to throw aboard the late queen’s former yacht, now a tourist attraction moored in Edinburgh, Scotland. Layton, who also owns a 44-year-old slice of Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s wedding cake, says he’s already thought about how to prepare the slice so as to protect himself from anything nasty that might’ve built up since it was baked as part of a 9-foot tall ensemble back in 1947. “I will have a third of it cut off and flambeed in rum so that any bacteria will be killed off,” he said. “But if anything happens to me, then at least I will be going out in style on Britannia.