So the flotilla – an event so awe-inspiring that it drew well over a million people, on a cold wet day, to stand 10-deep on the banks of the Thames to try to catch a sight – was treated merely as background for the witterings of the BBC’s most lightweight presenters and the D-list celebrities they had lined up to lurk anywhere but on the river. How else to explain the decision to cut away from the flotilla just as the Spirit of Chartwell, with the Royal family aboard, sailed through Tower Bridge with its gates up – one of the highlights of the afternoon – and switch to an interview by Fearne Cotton so cringe-makingly inept that it should be shown to all wannabe presenters as an example of how good looks are not enough. Miss Cotton was with some Second World War veterans, but appeared to have no idea what that war was or why she was interviewing the men. “This is obviously a huge ship, this is a weighty ship. How have you enjoyed your day cheering the Queen?”