Editing Queen Elizabeth 2 (section)

==== Retirement announcement ====
On 18 June 2007, Cunard announced that ''QE2'' had been bought by the [[Dubai]] investment company [[Istithmar]] for $100&nbsp;million.<ref name="QE2Sold">{{cite web |author=Cunard-Istithmar |date=18 June 2007 |title=Official QE2 Cunard-Istithmar Press Release |url=http://www.roblightbody.com/liners/qe-2/qe2_sold.htm |access-date=21 March 2011 |publisher=Rob Lightbody}}</ref><ref name="GulfNewsQE2Sale">{{cite web |author=Shakir Husain |date=18 June 2007 |title=Istithmar buys QE2 for $100m |url=http://gulfnews.com/business/tourism/istithmar-buys-qe2-for-100m-1.184774 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101118115116/http://gulfnews.com/business/tourism/istithmar-buys-qe2-for-100m-1.184774 |archive-date=18 November 2010 |access-date=21 March 2011 |publisher=GulfNews.com}}</ref> Her retirement, in part, was forced by the oncoming June 2010 implementation of the [[International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea|International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS)]] regulations, which would have forced large and expensive structural changes to the ship.<ref name="Otago240912" />