 These state that, as at the launch ceremony, an envelope and card were also held in New York in case of transmission failure, and when opened the card was found to read the name Queen Elizabeth, and that the decision to add "The Second" to the name was an alteration by the Queen.The book quotes the Cunard chairman Sir Basil Smallpeice as saying "The "Queen Mary" [named] after her Grandmother, the "Queen Elizabeth" after her mother, and now this magnificent ship after herself.