Queen Elizabeth’s fans seek to buy her new yacht

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.

A self-described “group of ordinary people” have launched the Jubilee Yacht Appeal under the slogan “yacht or not” -- in which fans of the monarch can either donate to a yacht or to a group of charities supported by the Queen.

They aim to raise 60 million ($94 million, 75 million euros) to buy “one of the top 100 yachts in the world” and present it to the Queen.

AFP