A dilapidated villa outside Malta’s capital where a young Princess Elizabeth and her husband lived before she became queen has become a focal point of Malta’s remembrance of the late monarch.
An external view of Villa Guardamangia, Malta, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2022, where the newlywed Princess Elizabeth lived for months at a time between 1949-1951. A dilapidated villa outside Malta's capital where a young Princess Elizabeth and her new husband spent some of their happiest days before she became Britain's queen has become the focal point of Malta's remembrance of the late monarch and her special ties to the former British colony in the Mediterranean.
The Maltese government in 2020 purchased Villa Guardamangia, which had fallen into disrepair, and is renovating the dwelling with the aim of“Obviously, Malta was a colony, too, so there are people who also remember that Britain had colonized us,” said former President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca. “But I don’t think people really mix the issue of being colonized and the queen. The queen carried a lot of respect.
“Having lived here when she was still a princess, Malta is the only country that Queen Elizabeth II could call home outside of the United Kingdom,” said Noel Zarb, who helped handle communications for the Maltese president at the time of the monarch's last visit. “She could remember a lot of details about Malta, especially about the time she spent in the country at the beginning of her marriage,” the former president said.
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