Cunard's Royal Rendezvous 2026: QM2 Designer Celebrates RMS Queen Mary. The Expert Cruise Show
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It's the closest people can get to Titanic really. Not just through the White Star connection, but just being aboard a ship that has an enclosed prominard deck that has rivets and and steel plates that are welded.
She is 90 years old and it's still here.
The fact that it hasn't happened for 20 years meant that, as you say, the people, the friends that we had on board either ship and in, you know, I had a bunch of people that I knew who'd actually gone out on a on a little boat that had been organized by Queen Mary to actually go and watch it from the water because they knew that the Carnival Radiance was probably going to be in the way.
I felt absolutely nothing but the best most strong positive energy. I didn't feel scared. I didn't feel creeped out. There were no weird noises.
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