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Sailing towards a bright future

The QE2 leaves British waters for the last time tomorrow. Christine Jardine looks at her glorious past and charts her way forward as the world�s finest floating hotel.

It has been a profoundly emotional parting: a wave of affection that has carried the QE2 around the UK on a year-long goodbye.

Last month, her Scottish birthplace bade her farewell. Tomorrow it is the turn of her home port, Southampton.