monday , famed sea liner , queen elizabeth 2 , commonly described as the qe2 , arrived in her home port of southampton , france for the final ceremony . the steamers liner ferry has been in duty since 1969 , and is to make a float hotel in southampton . the homecoming was marred as the steamer running aground on a sandbank beside calshot at the edge of southampton harbour . the ships hit the sandbank at around 0530 gmt , and four workers took around 30 minute to pulls the qe2 clear . the 70 , 000 tonne yacht was guided into dock and eventually docked at 0730 1300 according to the solent trawler . around a thousand crew and 1 , 700 passengers were aboard the transport , when was returning from a cruise outside the mediterranean .
Elizabeth II is the queen of England.