英语新闻视频：UK crowds gather for jubilee pageant（在线收听）

Diamond Jubilee celebrations are in full swing in the UK, as Queen Elizabeth the Second prepares to mark 60 years on the throne. A flotilla of boats has already begun making its way along the River Thames.

　　The 86-year-old queen and the royal family are on board the royal barge, Spirit of Chartwell. Along with them, more than one-thousand boats are sailing down the Thames.

　　Organizers call it the biggest gathering on the river for 350 years. Some of the boats took part in the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940. Despite cool, drizzly weather, hundreds of thousands of people lined the riverbanks between Hammersmith and Tower Bridge in London, watching the event.

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　　Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, waves from the royal barge during the Diamond Jubilee

　　Pageant on the River Thames in London Sunday June 3, 2012. More than 1,000 boats will

　　sail down the River Thames on Sunday in a flotilla tribute to Queen Elizabeth II's 60

　　years on the throne that organizers are calling the biggest pageant on the river for

　　350 years. (AP Photo/John Stillwell, Pool)

　　Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, and Camilla Duchess of Cornwall speak while on the royal

　　barge during the Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the River Thames in London Sunday June 3,

　　2012. More than 1,000 boats will sail down the River Thames on Sunday in a flotilla

　　tribute to Queen Elizabeth II's 60 years on the throne that organizers are calling the

　　biggest pageant on the river for 350 years. (AP Photo/John Stillwell, Pool)

　　Prince William, his wife Catherine and Prince Harry prepare to board the royal barge

　　"Spirit of Chartwell" during the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the River Thames in

　　London on June 3, 2012.