The role of "madrina" for the ship was served by Lynn Narraway, Seabourn’s vice president of UK and Europe and one of the company’s longest-serving female executives.
Narraway welded a box containing four commemorative gold coins to the ship, and was joined by Robin West, Seabourn’s vice president and general manager of expeditions, and by Marco Bisagno, T. Mariotti Shipyard’s president, and Marco Ghiglione, T. Mariotti’s managing director.