balcony. let s get right to cnn s richard quest, live at buckingham palace for us this morning. richard quest, good morning, how has it gone? reporter: good morning to you. it is an overcast but still dry morning. welcome. i m actually up the road from the palace in trafalgar square, where i think you might be able to see there are several hundred people watching what s happening on big screens. the reason we re in tra it ffal square, throughout the day, the queen is literally commuting through the square, backwards and forwards, palace, manchester house, down to westminster for the lunch, and then later this afternoon, soledad, up whitehall and back home to the palace for that royal wave. on the balcony, only six or seven of them. they re limiting the number of people that had be on the balcony. just the queen, the immediate line of succession, charles, camilla, william, catherine and harry. so, up next from the calendar that i ve read, the queen has left st. paul s wher
you live. this is the biggest i ve ever seen. an extraordinary explosion of patriarchic glee. 7 million are lining the streets all to watch what is the greatest river thames extravaganza we ve ever had in the country and to go through every one of those boats we have richard quest who has claimed to be a boat expert. the boats you re looking at now, narrow boats and dutch barges that, of course, further back up the river we have video pictures earlier of the queen as she arrived, obviously all about her today. here s my question, richard. here she is looking lovely in white. i know a lot were papanticipati would she wear white or pink? was she wearing white during her coronation? no, my understanding is why she s wearing white is so she clears out. notice her hat. this is on the spirit of chart well. the duchess of cambridge looking magnificent with alexander mcqueen. prince william in his raf military uniform, prince harry s uniform and, right away, richard