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HMS Queen Elizabeth facts

Royal Navy: 21 facts you NEED to know about HMS Queen Elizabeth

HMS Queen Elizabeth is now officially the fleet flagship of the Royal Navy.

The carrier will soon be returning home to Portsmouth after her first operational mission – having departed in May and spent seven months at sea.

In honour of this, we have pulled together a number of facts you might not know about HMS Queen Elizabeth.

You can see them all by looking through the gallery below.

Make sure to click on each page!

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