"...the British government had intended to purchase the F-35C carrier version of this aircraft, and adopted plans for Prince of Wales
to be built to a Catapult Assisted Take Off Barrier Arrested Recovery (CATOBAR) configuration. After the projected costs of the
CATOBAR system rose to around twice the original estimate, the government announced that it would revert to the original design on 10 May 2012...
[with] a Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) configuration...”
The Brits may well rue the day... 
they went on the cheap for their national dekense--
Thank you for your research and frequent postings of text and photos/diagrams of military assets from various countries!
I was on the FDR (CVA-42) built for about 3600, but we had around 5000 ship and squadron personnel, operating 24 hours every day. Smaller ship than these two the Brits are constructing, at only 55,000 tons.
Hard to believe that even with the new technologies they will be able to operate with such a small crew. They must plan on only operating each day from after breakfast until tea time.