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THE Queen will launch the Royal Navy supercarrier named after her when she visits Scotland in the summer.

The 65,000-ton HMS Queen Elizabeth is set to take to the water at Rosyth dockyard in Fife in July.

The MoD yesterday wouldn’t name the sponsor – the person who launches the vessel – or say when the £3.1billion warship would go down the slipway. But the Record understands the champagne-smashing ceremony will be arranged to fit in with the Queen’s annual Holyrood week visit in early July.

The HMS Queen Elizabeth was built in sections in shipyards in Glasgow and Portsmouth.

(Image: Phil Dye)

The assembly of her exterior structure has now been completed in Rosyth, where a take-off ramp for aircraft was also added.

The ship already has members of the Royal Navy assigned to her and, once complete, will have a crew of 679.