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It's just not a pageant without pretend Venetians rowing by

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Just when you fear nobody's coming, the river fills with man- (and woman-)powered boats

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Canary Wharf is vanishing behind a curtain of relentless driving rain

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Not your everyday transport down the Thames

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I may have Photoshopped the rain, and the relentless grey, from this photo

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Watching the Pageant's flagship row by, waving from prime Thameside balconies.

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Jubilee ringers, cast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, peal their way past Rotherhithe

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Although Canaletto had better weather, and a more impressive line of buildings, and fewer canoes

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Watching the Diamond Jubilee Pageant at the King William IV pub in Pimlico

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Sorry mate, authorised ticketholders only. They're one-deep on the bridge, everyone else is ten deep on the Embankment

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He can't see any of the Pageant standing here on the Chelsea Embankment, not a thing, but it's the taking part that's important

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This is the only view of the Thames I could find anywhere between Vauxhall Bridge and Albert Bridge - there between the trees

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You come all this way for the Pageant, and you end up watching it on TV not on the river

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The unique circular stage, around the Victoria Memorial, undergoing preparations for Monday's BBC concert

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Bedecked with giant Union Jacks (this is as close to the palace as the public are currently allowed)

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Buckingham Palace is fully sealed off, two days in advance on the Diamond Jubilee Concert

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13500 plants comprise this 4m-high recreation of St Edward's Crown (used in the coronation), in St James's Park.

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Pop-up souvenir shack, stocked by the Royal Parks, full of tasteless (and almost tasteful) Jubilee tat....

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