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An aide to the Britain's royal family was sacked after he tried to sell one of Queen Elizabeth's traditional Christmas puddings on Internet auction site eBay, a media report said on Friday.
Ben Church (25), who worked in the Buckingham Palace as a property administrator, was fired on Thursday after officials learnt that he had advertised the pudding, which costs £ 6.25 at the famous London food store Fortnum and Mason, for £ 20, the Daily Mirror newspaper reported.
Palace chiefs insisted that putting the pudding, which was one of the 1,450 the Queen handed out as gifts to long-serving staff, on the Internet auction site was a 'security breach', the paper said.
"There were other supporting documents to show it [the pudding] came from the Buckingham Palace," the paper quoted the palace officials as saying.
The report said that selling royal memorabilia on the Internet has become common among the palace staff. A piece of wedding cake from the 1981 marriage of Prince Charles and late Princess Diana was also put for sale on the Internet earlier this week.