Cunard backs captain in Queen Mary 2 row
A wealthy Briton and his Broadway show producer wife were ordered off the Queen Mary 2 cruise ship after an alleged fight with another passenger at a black-tie dinner.
The UK Daily Mail reported that Frederick Evans, 91, and Gloria Sher, 82, were told by the captain to leave at the next port following what was said to be an expletive-ridden row over anti-Semitic remarks.
The couple faced being dumped in a remote part of Quebec in Canada before fellow passengers came to their defence and asked that they be allowed to stay.
The captain agreed – but only on the condition that they spend the remaining six days of their £12,000 cruise in their cabin under house arrest and handed over all their alcohol.
The row erupted when another passenger at the formal dinner was said to have remarked: ‘There are too many Jews on board’.
Some passengers alleged Miss Sher had been cantankerous during the journey and that on another night on the cruise she flew into a rage because a piano lounge was closed.
Mr Evans, however, disagreed.
Miss Sher claimed her husband is the illegitimate son of the Duke of Windsor, the abdicated King Edward VIII, as well as a British knight.
Her ex-husband, Louis K Sher, owned an art house cinema chain and produced a porn film, the Daily Mail reported.
Cunard said in a statement to the newspaper that it only refunded the couple £529 because they engaged in “multiple incidences of disrespectful and disruptive behaviour towards crew members and other guests.â€
It added the company “fully supported†the captain’s decision.
Ian Jarrett
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