Queen Mary Heritage Blog

With Taylor Swift’s new song “Elizabeth Taylor” putting the violet-eyed icon back into the cultural spotlight, it feels like the right time to revisit a chapter of Taylor’s life that rarely makes it into documentaries or biographies: her deep history with the RMS Queen Mary. Long before she became the Hollywood legend we picture today, Elizabeth Taylor was a young girl stepping aboard the world’s most glamorous ocean liner. Her crossings in the late 1940s and early 1950s capt

Algeron Newton's painting, "Evening on the Avon" in the Queen Mary's Long Gallery Running along the port side of Promenade Deck, the Long...

The Queen Mary Heritage Foundation has signed an agreement with the City of Long Beach, formally establishing the Foundation as the City’s nonprofit partner for Queen Mary restoration and preservation.

For nearly ninety years, the RMS Queen Mary has captured the imagination of travelers, photographers, and history enthusiasts around the world. From her glamorous days as a luxury ocean liner to her vital role in World War II and her life today as a Long Beach landmark, every detail of the ship has been photographed from every conceivable angle. But some of the most meaningful pictures of the Queen Mary aren’t the ones in books or postcards; they’re the personal snapshots tak