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Long live the qe2. Throughout her sailing career the qe2 was the darling of the rich and famous.

Qe2 Returns To Port Rashid After Shower And A Shave

Qe2 An Ocean Liner The Postal Museum

Ocean Liner The Qe2 Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Announced in november 2010.

Qe2 name. Qe2 bow name october 2008. Isabelle using qe2 is down to laziness. Other later accounts repeat the position that cunard originally intended to name the ship queen elizabeth and the addition of a 2 by the queen was a surprise to cunard in 1990 and 2008 although two books by william h. Documents from senior cunard management at the time testify to this. Qe2 was designed to be radical departure from the old and one of the ways they tried to ensure this was to make a deliberate decision to drop the rms from her name. Economy following the great recession. In her lifetime the qe2 would complete 1400 voyages sail some 6 million nautical miles and entertain almost 25 million passengers. Elizabeth ii elizabeth alexandra mary windsor. Patrons of the qe2 included the likes of nelson mandela elizabeth taylor buzz aldrin and david bowie. The term qe2 refers to the second round of the federal reserves quantitative easing program that sought to stimulate the us. Miller state that queen elizabeth 2 was the name agreed on before the launch between cunard officials and the queen. As such it is commonly pronounced in speech as queen elizabeth two. Elizabeth was born in london as the first child of the duke and duchess of york later king george vi and queen elizabeth and she was educated privately at home. The name of the liner as it appears on the bow and stern is the queen elizabeth 2 with upper and lower case lettering and an arabic numeral 2 as opposed to the roman numeral ii. Born 21 april 1926 is queen of the united kingdom and the other commonwealth realms.

What annoys me is the fact that the queen elizabeth ii bridge at dartford is known as the qe2 bridge when it should be known as queen elizabeth the second bridge as the bridge does not have a 2 in its title.