[8] On October 16, 2016, Bettendorf locals gathered on the levee to give their farewell to the 21 year-old casino boat and watched her pull off the river bank to sail south to undergo her reconstruction.

On August 14, 2017, at the New Orleans waterfront, American Duchess was christened with a bottle of Maker's Mark bourbon by Marissa Applegate, daughter of AQSC CEO John Waggoner.

[13] American Queen has not visited Nashville since 2014,[14] though she did make an unexpected cruise to Ottawa, Illinois in 2018 due to high water conditions on the Upper Mississippi.

[15] In 2021, Hallmark Channel released the Christmas movie 'Every Time a Bell Rings' which was set in Natchez, Mississippi and featured scenes filmed aboard American Duchess.

Jim Palmeri of the American Queen's shore excursions company estimated that the total of 16,537 people brought to Vicksburg during that year by AQSC had spent an average of $76 per person in the city.