thousands of people here lining up both sides of the cathedral is so much as far as i can see. people wanting to catch a glimpse of the invited guests at a today s important service of thanksgiving, tinged of course with that announcement from the palace last night that the queen is not able to attend and faith, hugely important to the queen, that is something we are going to be talking about a lot here in the coming hours, so that is a source of disappointment to her but there will be many other members of the royal family, but there will be many other members of the royalfamily, the prince of wales deputising will be the most senior member of the royal family wales deputising will be the most senior member of the royalfamily in the queen s absence and many others are invited guests and we will be talking to them as well. let s start our coverage this morning by, i think, looking back at vide s event yesterday, because this is of course a day to over four days of