Guests invited by Meghan Markle and Prince Harry to see them marry are already cashing in by selling their free gift bags on eBay for £400 or more.

The canvas bags inscribed with the couple’s initials were given to the 1,200 non-VIPs invited to spend the day outside St George’s Chapel in the grounds of Windsor Castle on Saturday.

The royal couple had wanted a ‘people’s wedding’ and each bag was packed with a giant chocolate coin, a tin of shortbread, a fridge magnet and a voucher for 20 per cent off in the castle shop to enjoy on the day. A bottle of Windsor Castle water and a wedding programme were also included.

But within hours of the royal wedding dozens of the so-called Community Champions or others who got hold of them started auctioning these free gifts off to the highest bidder.

Many had clearly planned to do it and photographed the items outside St George’s Chapel to ensure they look genuine and MailOnline has found at least 25 listings ranging from between £25 and £420.

Harry and Meghan had wanted a ‘people’s wedding’ and 1,200 people were given a free goodie bag – but some have started to flog them off

Guests invited by Meghan and Harry to see them marry are already cashing in by selling their gift bags on eBay for £400 or more

Guests arriving in the grounds of Windsor Castle passed tables where bags were handed out to each guest but some have taken advantage of this generosity

The canvas bags had the happy couple’s initials on the side and are being sold on the promise buyers will be getting a piece of royal wedding history

One seller said: ‘Buy a piece of history and memorabilia to celebrate a momentous special day for Britain’s and the royal family’.

Another hoping to cash in on the international market said: ‘I’m happy to send the gift bag internationally if your happy to cover the postage’.

One later claimed they would donate the cash to charity but had initially ‘forgotten’ to mention it on their eBay posting.

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An order of service, badge, a ‘handbag’ sized shortbread packer, some water and a gift voucher were also among the freebies

Today it also emerged that an eBay seller is auctioning off PDFs of the royal wedding order of service and incredibly more than ten people have bought them for a £5 each.

This is despite the same thing being free to download via the royal family’s website.

The seller wrote: ‘Wondered what was in the order of service? This is a PDF version of the exact order of service’.

‘It will be sent direct to your email address once payment is received for you to view or print off to make your own copy’.

One seller is selling PDFs of the order of service for £5 when you can still get it for free via the royal family’s website. It contains the page saying Thomas Markle would give away his daughter that could not be changed in time for the wedding.

It was found at least 25 listings ranging from between £25 and £420 put up by 1,200 invited to share the big day inside the castle grounds (pictured)

Record viewing figures made Harry and Meghan’s wedding the TV event of the year so far.

It was watched by a peak of 13.1million just after 1pm on BBC1, making it the biggest peak figure so far in 2018, the broadcaster said. ITV’s coverage peaked at 3.6million.

The combined average audience for BBC and ITV was around 11million. But this was lower than the figure for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding in 2011, which had a combined audience of 17.6million – although this included people watching on catch-up. Charles and Diana’s wedding was watched by more than 28million in 1981.

Saturday’s FA Cup Final averaged 6.7million viewers and peaked at 8.7million on BBC1.