Disappointing BBC coverage of the Jubilee River Pageant

I had been really looking forward to an afternoon watching the coverage of the Jubilee River Pageant. Of course I would have given my eye teeth to be there but I couldn't so that was it. I had a sense of forboding when I saw that the scheduled commentators was to include Matt Baker, a man who is unable to speak or pronounce English correctly, and Sophie Raworth whose news broadcasts have all the fluidity of a stroke victim. But, I told myself, surely it could not be that bad. It is the Beeb after all and not Sky! How wrong could I possibly be? The BBC coverage was as dismal as the weather.
I had forgotten the Beeb's policy of trivialising anything to do with the Monarchy.
From the second I heard someone refer to the Queen as Her Royal Highness, I knew it was all going to go horribly wrong.
And sure enough Matt Baker started off with his usual brand of regional English which denies the existence of the letter G in the endings of present participles and gerunds. While Sophie Raworth, who could trivialise anything into non existence, prattled on with gems such as:
"Oh look, my 70 yr old dad is in there somewhere!" Completely ignoring a barge overflowing with Royals and other dignitaries floating past on the river.
Other low points included;
Tess Daly prancing about with a strange hair piece vaguely resembling a pineapple perched on her head.
Something about some people doing some really rubbish painting. In the rain for God's sake!
Somebody wiffling about sandwiches and picnic snacks. Why do celebrity chefs have to be dragged into everything nowadays?
Richard E Grant talking to the embarrassing John Sargent about his Union Jack socks and underwear. WHY?
Fearne Cotton doing something pointless and utterly irrelevant in sparkly shoes.

This was an event that is unlikely ever to be repeated and the whole significance and description of the spectacle was missed entirely.
I only heard one historically significant event mentioned and that was the fact that Anne Boleyn came by river for both her wedding and execution. Was that really the best they could do from hundreds of years of history?

One question which intrigued me was that of the underuse of the rather magnificent replica royal barge Glorianna (below).

Why wasn't Her Majesty on board this splendid craft instead of that motorised tin bath? We weren't told. Maybe it was a matter of security or safety. I could understand that but I'd have liked to have been be told. I admit that the handling of the tin bath was accomplished with skilful aplomb and was a joy to watch but even so!
This was an event that took several years to plan and it was executed magnificently in spite of the dire weather. But it took the BBC only a few hours to make it ruin it with puerile rubbish and a Blue Peter level of commentary.
The BBC ought to be utterly ashamed of itself.