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====Cunard website==== From at least 2002 the official Cunard website stated that "The new ship is not named after the Queen but is simply the second ship to bear the name β hence the use of the Arabic 2 in her name, rather than the Roman II used by the Queen",<ref name="CunardWebsiteQE2First30YearsArchive16June2002"> {{cite web | url = http://www.cunard.com/onboard/qe2/first30years.asp?Active=QE2&Sub=SF | title =Queen Elizabeth II β The First 30 Years | access-date =14 November 2008 | publisher = Cunard Official Website, www.cunard.com | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20020616200739/http://www.cunard.com/onboard/qe2/first30years.asp?Active=QE2&Sub=SF | archive-date = 16 June 2002 | quote = 1967: Launched by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in the presence of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and HRH Princess Margaret. The new ship is not named after the Queen but is simply the second ship to bear the name β hence the use of the Arabic 2 in her name, rather than the Roman II used by the Queen }} </ref><ref name="CunardWebsiteQE2First30YearsArchive20October2006"> {{cite web | url = http://www.cunard.com/onboard/default.asp?OB=QE2&Sub=sp&SubSubSection=30Years | title = The First 30 Years | access-date =14 November 2008 | website = Queen Elizabeth II | publisher = Cunard Official Website, www.cunard.com | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061020013452/http://www.cunard.com/onboard/default.asp?OB=QE2&Sub=sp&SubSubSection=30Years | archive-date = 20 October 2006 | quote = 1967: Launched by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in the presence of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and HRH Princess Margaret. The new ship is not named after the Queen but is simply the second ship to bear the name β hence the use of the Arabic 2 in her name, rather than the Roman II used by the Queen }} </ref> however, in late 2008 this information had been removed due to the ship's retirement.<ref name="CunardWebsiteQE2First30YearsArchive11March2007"> {{cite web | url = http://www.cunard.com/onboard/default.asp?OB=QE2&Sub=sp&SubSubSection=30Years | title = Sail into History | access-date =14 November 2008 | website = Queen Elizabeth II History | publisher = Cunard Official Website, www.cunard.com | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070311030132/http://www.cunard.com/OurShips/default.asp?Ship=QE2&main=int&sub=his| archive-date=11 March 2007| quote = 20 September 1967: Launched by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II }} </ref>
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