A GOSPORT seller has listed a Queen lying in state wristband on eBay for £2,000.

The wristbands were given to people joining the infamous queue, which at one point reached a length of ten miles.

They were issued by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport to help manage the huge number of people waiting to pay their respects to the Queen.

The department made different coloured bands for each day, and they were also numbered, for a record of when they joined.

It allowed mourners to leave the queue for short periods of time to go to the toilet, get food and drink or go to one of the first aid station along the route, and then return to their place in the queue.

The Gosport auction will end in two days with a starting bid of £2,000 or it can be bought now with a Buy It Now price of £5,000.

There are already seven buyers keeping an eye on the purple wristband.

It's being listed from a location in Gosport with £3.35 for economy delivery, with no returns accepted.

The eBay seller says the wristband was for September 15, when they queued for six and a half hours between 10am at Tower Bridge and Westminster at 4.30pm.

Around a quarter of a million people paid their respects by filing past the Queen's coffin as it laid in state, according to Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II could only be seen lying in state in London for four and a half days, from 5pm on September 14 until 6.30am on the day of the funeral on September 19.

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