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used Orders of Service from the Queen’s funeral is bad enough, but now a seller on eBay is seeking £2,500 for a ‘new’ one. Strange, because Alasdair Abrines, director of printers Barnard & Westwood, assures me that ‘any [surplus] copies have been either shredded or locked away in our safe’. And Duncan Jeffery, head of communications at Westminster Abbey, tells me its own unused copies ‘are under lock and key in our security room’. Caveat emptor?