Doesn't bode well for people next week getting in but I guess you can hardly tell people to get a move on.
I was in the area earlier and got caught up in the crowds making their way (very slowly grr) to the procession. It was extra-rammed as both Green Park and St James' Park had been closed for security reasons (people were literally being ejected out of a gap in the barriers at Green Park was I walked past). They were a LOT of older women in the crowds that I walked through. A disproportionate amount. I suspect many are retired or work part time. The whole area was being funneled behind security barriers. I finally found a gap in them and managed to dash across the road back to normality.
Saying that, I would have been tempted to queue. I was tempted to join the procession crowds (although the snail like pace was already driving me loopy) but I have surgery next week and need to avoid crowds because of the Covid risk (so was starting to panic at being stuck in them!)