Big Lizzie prepares for show of force to China
Advertisement Britain's £3billion aircraft carrier will today leave Portsmouth following two of the Royal Navy's 'Premier League' warships for exercises in Scotland ahead of its first operational deployment to the Indo-Pacific region. The HMS Queen Elizabeth - nicknamed 'Big Lizzie' - will travel from the naval base in Hampshire on Saturday ahead of the first deployment of the UK's Carrier Strike Group (CSG) next month. The destroyers HMS Defender and HMS Diamond were photographed departing Portsmouth earlier today, with the Ministry of Defence confirming to MailOnline that 'Big Lizzie'...