has come before her and, when we look at those shots of the thames, the river lifeblood of london and has an extraordinary history for the royal family going back to the days of hearn viii when he came down here on his barge and that is a recreation of what we are seeing here today. the liquid life as one put it on the thames river, and the royal family, we have shots from all of them gathering this morning, queen elizabeth, prince philip, her husband of all of these years, by her side and prince charles and camilla and the duchess of cornwall with him and we also saw william and kate, the duke and duchess of cambridge as they boarded on the spirit of cartwell, the official royal barge, the highest members of the royal family are in the spirit of chartwell and, we saw a while ago the gloriana, a wooden rowed ship built as a celebration of the queen s diamond jubilee and has been in the works the last two years and