Lynda, how about yourself? Were you excited about the launch, or about the Queen, or about getting a day off school? Perhaps all three!
I had no awareness whatsoever of the QE2 at the time.
I had just left school and was at the time starting a gap year by improving my French in Paris while working as an au pair.
This was the year of the moon landings (just a couple of months earlier), and somehow those did reach my consciousness, which was otherwise fully occupied by the joy of finally having left school!