Southampton - (Titanic Mess): The Queen said her goodbyes to the Hellfire Club's former flagship the QE2 at Southampton Dock today despite frantic warnings that the hex on the liner's predecessor, the RMS Queen Elizabeth is stalking her karma.
Royal archivists still have a heavy bout of psychosomatic amnesia about that vessel's fate after it sank tragically off the coast of Hong Kong on 9 January 1972 following a mystery arson attack.
The scuttled remains eventually became landfill for the ensuing Hong Kong International Airport runway.
Its post-Cunard proprietor Hong Kong tycoon C Y Tung was sectioned under the Mental Health Act after authorities discovered he'd sold off the movie rights to the 1974 James Bond Movie The Man With the Golden Gun which featured the former majestic liner as a covert headquarters for MI6.
The decomissioned QE2 now serve as a floating brothel, moored in the disputed balmy territorial waters of the Shitt-el-Arab near the Persian Gulf's Iranian coast.
Prince Philip has technical rigor mortis.
