Cunard's Queen Victoria home.CUNARD'S 90,000-tonne liner Queen Victoria has arrived at its home port of Southampton ahead of its official naming by the Duchess of Cornwall The Duchess of Cornwall is the title held by the wife of the Duke of Cornwall. Duke of Cornwall is a non-hereditary peerage held by the British Sovereign's eldest son and heir. . Accompanied by the Prince of Wales Prince of Wales switches places with his double, poor boy Tom Canty. [Am. Lit.: The Prince and the Pauper] See : Doubles , Camilla will be naming the 2,000-passenger vessel at a lavish ceremony in Southampton on Monday. More than 2,000 invited guests will witness the ceremony in a specially-built auditorium next to the City Cruise Terminal where Queen Victoria will be berthed. The vessel will join two other Cunard queens - the QE2 and the Queen Mary 2 (QM2) - in the company's fleet, with the three meeting in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of next month. Cunard's president and managing director Carol Marlow said: "The naming of a Cunard queen is a very special occasion. The naming of Queen Victoria is made even more special by the presence of their Royal Highnesses." Built at the Fincantieri shipyard near Venice, the Queen Victoria may not be Cunard's biggest ship but the company boasts that it is its most luxurious. Features include a "floating first" - West-End style boxes in the 830-seat theatre - as well as a 6,000-book library The meeting of the three queens is part of Queen Victoria's first world cruise - a 106-night trip with fares ranging from pounds 11,000 to pounds 115,000 for a grand suite. |
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