2022 is Here Already ! Well Almost !

Tomorrow sees the launch of Cunard 2021/2022 programme, which will be followed by P&O with their itineraries being announced on 14th October. Late this year, as they are usually released in September, but probably postponed beacuse of the re-scheduling of Oceana`s Middle Eastern itineraries. Cunard top tier World Club members can book tomorrow at 8am and everyone else the following day.

So what is in the programme , and is there anything new ?

Queen Elizabeth will be in the Far East sailing around Japan and Australasia until December 2021, she will then,  I guess, return for her 2022 World Cruise. Queen Mary does her normal transatlantic voyages with a Europe itineraries from Southampton thrown in , and that leaves Queen Victoria sailing out of Southampton from May 2021 until January 2022.

Strangely though, and I have clients already pick up on this, there are hardly any Mediterranean sailings from Southampton, just  one in June, and two more in September and October programme. Victoria will spend most of the summer crusing to Norway, Iceland the North Cape, the Baltic and the Canary Islands.

But there may be a little surprise on the Horizon! in 2022 Cunard are due to take delivery of their , yet unnamed, new liner. The 3,000-passenger ship, the fourth and largest in the fleet by total capacity, will join the 3 other Queens in the Cunard fleet. So will the new ship sail to the Med? Who knows, I suspect Cunard do already but they are not telling anyone else just yet.

One other thing they are not telling either is what she will be called. The favourite appears to be Queen Anne,  but I have heard an interesting theory from one of my avid Cunard clients. Anne only has on syllable in it. All the others ships have more than that/the shortest, Mary, has two. My clients suggestion is she will be called Queen Alexandra, who was the longest-serving Princess of Wales in British history. She was the wife of Edward VII. Although her public duties were limited, Alexandra became a very popular royal who did significant charity work in her lifetime.

This is from her biography ” A popular royal in life and death, Alexandra was mourned deeply by the British public, and she became the namesake for everything from palaces to ships to streets. Although she was not permitted any political influence, she was a style icon for the women of her time and defined an entire era of fashion. Her legacy was not one of politics, but of personal popularity and boundless generosity.”

So we shall see – but definitey sounds possible.

 

 

 

 

 


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