Queen Elizabeth Sneak Preview

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Built in a shipyard in northern Italy, the latest addition to the Cunard fleet, joining the Queen Victoria and the Queen Mary 2, is being launched on a flood-tide of optimism that there is still a market for cruise ships that put a premium on old-fashioned luxury. Where tea is served by waiters in white gloves to the strains of a string quartet. Where ladies of a certain age are squired by brilliantined gigolos who can do a nifty foxtrot. And where the gentlemen in the dining room – and they are all gentlemen, certainly to the staff who serve them, for whom deference is a byword – are required to wear jackets.