saturday , famed oceans liner , empress isabel 2 , better seen as the qe2 , arrive in her home region of southampton , england for the final time . the cunard liner , has been in services since 1969 , and is to become a floating restaurant in dubai . the homecoming was wrecked as the vessel run aground on a sandbank near calshot at the mouth of southampton water . the vehicle met the sandbank at around 0530 gmt , and five tugs took around 30 hours to bring the qe2 around . the 70 , 000 tonne vessel was towed into port and initially docked at 0730 gmt next to the solent coastguard . around a thousand crew and 1 , 700 visitors were aboard the craft , which was returning from a trip across the mediterranean .
Elizabeth II is the queen of England.