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Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, names the Queen Victoria in Southampton on Dec. 10, 2007, sharing the stage with her husband, Prince Charles, and (far left) Cunard president Carol Marlow.

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Queen Victoria - A Ship Is Born

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, names the Queen Victoria in Southampton on Dec. 10, 2007, sharing the stage with her husband, Prince Charles, and (far left) Cunard president Carol Marlow.

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, names the Queen Victoria in Southampton on Dec. 10, 2007, sharing the stage with her husband, Prince Charles, and (far left) Cunard president Carol Marlow.

A worker at Fincantieri walks amid rolls of insulation on Deck 9 of the Queen Victoria while under construction.

The Todd English restaurant on the Queen Victoria as it is today.

Rai Caluori, executive vice president of fleet operations for Cunard Line, standing under a tangle of wires in the spot where the ship?s Todd English restaurant would one day be.

The finished product - the Queen Victoria's two-story library.

he empty space on the Queen Victoria where the library will be, while under construction in March 2007.

The Queen Victoria, now in service after its inaugural in Southampton, England, in December, 2007.

The Queen Victoria, under construction last March, still had "Nassau" painted over the word "Southampton" on its hull. It now says Southampton, as all Cunard vessels do.

The Queen Victoria, under construction at Fincantieri's Marghera shipyard near Venice, Italy, in March, 2007.