Mary Queen of Shops Mary Queen of Shops Mary Queen of Shops is a British television series presented by Mary Portas broadcast on BBC Two. The series began with a four-week run starting on 7 June 2007, and returned for a second series of six episodes beginning on 9 June 2008. A third three-part series, titled "Mary Queen of Charity Shops", began on 2 June 2009. The show returned for a fourth series on 7 June 2010, featuring various independent shops, rather than just fashion boutiques. The title of the programme is a play on Mary, Queen of Scots' name. In each episode, Mary
RMS Queen Mary 2 documentary TV series "Mighty Ships". The Rolls-Royce Mermaid propulsor pods fitted to "QM2" have proven to be prone to failure. The failures had been so frequent and extensive that Carnival Corp. (USA), by way of its Cunard Line division, took Rolls-Royce Corp. (UK) to court in the United States in January 2009. The line alleged that the Mermaid pod propulsion systems fitted to Cunard Line's flagship "Queen Mary 2" are inherently defective in design. Cunard contends that Rolls Royce knew about the design deficiencies and deliberately conspired to mislead, deceive and defraud in the course of winning the contract. The