Cunard, the UK based premium to luxury market segment unit in the Carnival Corporation & plc group, has decided to name its fourth ship Queen Anne.

The company unveiled the name, which had been rumoured to the choice of the company for some time, in a presentation online.

Queen Anne is scheduled to be delivered by Fincantieri in 2024, two years later than projected before the Covid-19 pandemic. It will accommodate 3,300 passengers and it will join Queen Mary 2 (2004), Queen Victoria (2007) and Queen Elizabeth (2010) in the Cunard fleet.

Queen Anne reigned from 1702 to 1714. She gave birth to several children, none of whom survived her to adulthood, which meant that she became the last monarch of the House of Stuart - or Stewart as it is in Scotland - on the British throne.