 Accounts that repeat the position that "QE2" was not named after the reigning monarch have been published in 1991, 1999, 2004, 2005, and 2008.In 2008, "The Telegraph" goes further to state the ship is named not only as the second ship named "Queen Elizabeth", but is specifically named after the wife of King George VI.In contradiction however, some modern accounts continue to publish that the "QE2" was named after the reigning monarch, in 2001 and 2008.