SHE was once the epitome of glamour on the high seas but now there are claims Southamp-ton’s former world famous liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, pictured, is being left to “rot away”.

More than six years after she sailed out of Southampton for the final time, QE2 remains languishing in Dubai, ambitious plans for her future still to be realised, and now come claims that this once proud liner is not being cared for, resulting fears that her once stylish superstructure is set to fall into disrepair.

Reports emerging from Dubai suggest there is a growing wave of concern that the legendary ship is now facing an uncertain future as she waits at her moorings in Port Rashid.

Original plans called for the ship to undergo a multi-million pound transformation and re-open for business as a world-class hotel in 2011, but the years have come and gone and as yet no work has begun and no preparations seem to be under way for her to move from her berth.

The website, Arabian Business.com, has reported that plans for QE2’s transformation appear to have stalled again.

It said: “Repeated plans have been announced for the future fate of the ship, which celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2017, since it was sold to Dubai at the height of the property boom in 2008.

“With plans appearing to stall once again, many fans, passengers and former employees of the ship have expressed disapproval at its current state.”

Marc-Antoine Bombail, author of several books on QE2 added: “Queen Elizabeth 2 has to be preserved for future generations because she is a vision of majesty, power, luxury and elegance.

“To let QE2 rot away or get scrapped would be a supremely uncivilised outrage.”

No one was available to comment about the future of the ship at QE2 Holdings, the ship’s owners in Dubai.

It will be half a century ago next month that the contract was signed to build QE2 and for almost 40 of the following years the Cunard liner made Southampton her home as she played host to royalty, world politicians, sporting superstars and show business celebrities.