Qe2
http:query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE7DC1531F936A2575BC0A964958260&sec=&spon=&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink. http:www.southampton.gov.uk/leisure/events/QE2-final-departure.asp?Month=11&Year=2008.
http:www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2457396.0.Tearful_Clyde_says_goodbye_to_QE2.php. Braynard, In Picture History of the Cunard Line, 1840-1990, Courier Dover Publications 1991, ISBN 0486265501, OL:OL1886775M, p127, Google Books search (partial preview), "But it was left to Queen Elizabeth herself, who, like her grandmother in 1934 and her mother in 1938, consented to name the liner at her launching.
Queen Elizabeth named the new Cunarder Queen Elizabeth 2, honouring the original Queen Elizabeth (not, as many had thought, the Queen herself). http:news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/20/newsid_3075000/3075555.stm.
Sir Basil Smallpeice was overjoyed at the sovereign's alteration of the name. Miller, In Picture history of the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth, Courier Dover Publications 2004, ISBN 0486435091, OL:OL3303843M, p99, Google Books search (partial preview), "Queen Elizabeth II had agreed to do the naming at the ship's launch on 20 September 1967 and, in discussion with Cunard officials, agreed on Queen Elizabeth 2.
"There is one common misconception about the QE2 – that she is named after the Queen.