Article: King of the world

Before Victoria bagged the title, Posh used to mean one thing: port out, starboard home, an acronym for the preferred cabin choice of the sophisticated 19th-century Anglo-Indian seafarer. A century and a bit on and there's no longer a need for such distinctions: travel doesn't get much more posh than the world's first ocean-going luxury resort, no matter which side of the ship you're sleeping on.

A concept dreamt up by Knut Kloster of Royal Viking Line and Norwegian Cruise Lines (and of the shipping family that pioneered cruise holidays in the 1960s), the World left its Norwegian shipyard for the first time on 2 May this year, plotting a course first to Cannes (for the film festival, ...

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