Some bubbles are worth more than others: particularly when they’ve crossed paths with royalty. Take a magnum of Dom Pérignon Vintage 1961, served at the wedding of Princess Diana and Prince Charles decades before he would become King.

On December 11, one of these very rare bottles will be auctioned off by Bruun Rasmussen at Kongens Lyngby, a Danish auction house on the outskirts of Copenhagen. The vintage is from 1961, the year of the bride’s birth. It was disgorged twenty years later and labeled with a historical note: “Shipped specially in honor of the wedding of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer, July 29, 1981.”

As Thomas Rosendahl Andersen , Bruun Rasmussen’s wine manager, told AFP : “There are only twelve magnums available, and this is one of them

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