Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother extremely enthusiastic, and largely dissipated any residual feeling that George and Elizabeth were a lesser substitute for Edward. Elizabeth told Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, "that tour made us", and she returned to Canada frequently both on official tours and privately. During the Second World War, the King and Queen became symbols of the fight against fascism. Shortly after the declaration of war, "The Queen's Book of the Red Cross" was conceived. Fifty authors and artists contributed to the book, which was fronted by Cecil Beaton's portrait of the Queen and was sold in aid of the Red
RMS Queen Elizabeth called The Queen Corporation (which was 85% owned by Cunard and 15% by them). The new company intended to operate the ship as a hotel and tourist attraction in Port Everglades, Florida, similar to the planned use of "Queen Mary" in Long Beach, California. "Elizabeth", as she was now called, actually opened to tourists before "Queen Mary" (which opened in 1971) but it was not to last. The climate of southern Florida was much harder on "Queen Elizabeth" than the climate of southern California was on "Queen Mary". There was some talk of permanently flooding the bilge and allowing the