Allure of the Seas Naming Ceremony: Live Video Web Stream

Although you can't be there in person unless you purchased a cabin for the one-night inaugural celebration charity fundraiser, you can still join Royal Caribbean and more than 3,500 guests today via live video web streaming of the naming ceremony of Allure of the Seas. The event will be held prior to the ship’s departure from her Port Everglades homeport.Allure of the Seas’ surprise godmother

Queen Elizabeth Naming: “Pomp & Circumstance Fit For A Queen”...

As Alastair Greener, Queen Elizabeth's Entertainment Director put it, “Nobody does that like the British.”At a question-and-answer session the day before the Queen Elizabeth naming ceremony, Peter Shanks, CEO and Managing Director of Cunard Line, told those of us in the American media group that his mission was to make the hairs on the back of our necks stand up during the proceedings. He

Queen Elizabeth: The Royal Naming Ceremony

In a royal ceremony with as much pomp, pageantry, and nostalgia to satisfy the most avid Anglophile, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II gave Cunard Line’s new Queen Elizabeth her name and bestowed her blessing upon the liner. The christening began yesterday with performances by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and the Massed Bands of the Coldstream Guards, Scots Guards, and Fanfare

Queen Elizabeth: Ready for Her Name

In Southampton on a sunny, crisp autumn English day, the newest Cunard liner awaits naming by Her Majesty The Queen.

On Board Queen Elizabeth: Art & Memorabilia

Art plays a large part in cruise ship décor and on no ship is it more important than on the new Queen Elizabeth. I’ve only been on board for a day, but I’ve already seen that signature art deco style pieces, such as a mural at the Reception Desk by Academy-Award winner, author, and art deco expert Arnold Schwartzman (above), mingle seamlessly with contemporary art commissioned for the ship,

Meeting A Queen

Last week, during a handover ceremony on board Queen Elizabeth at the Fincantieri Monfalcone shipyard, Cunard Line took delivery of the new 92,400-ton vessel. Aboard the second largest Cunarder ever built and the third new liner for the luxury cruise line in six years, the Italian flag was ceremonially lowered and the Blue Ensign was raised, marking the entry of another magnificent Cunard liner