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Queen Elizabeth's fans seek to buy her a new yacht - or 2

Reported by Straits Times on Monday, 28 May 2012 (on May 28, 2012)
Straits Times
LONDON (AFP) - Supporters of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II have floated rival attempts to buy her a new yacht for her diamond jubilee to replace the decommissioned Royal Yacht Britannia.

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