_ The Queen Mary II, the transatlantic oceanliner, thrives and survives on nostalgia for the British past. It harkens back to the golden age of ocean liners in the early to mid-twentieth century when Britain ruled the waves and the British Empire still existed. It still has a dress code on formal nights and has a white-gloved service for high tea. One of the recent lectures aboard the ship was given by a British lord who was for forty years the head of the military. The Queen christened the ship in 2003, and there’s a museum onboard.