Inside the villa Britain's Queen Elizabeth called home between 1949 and 1951
A villa near Malta's capital, Valletta, where the heir to the English throne lived between 1949 and 1951, is about to get a new lease of life as a museum of the Mediterranean island's links with the United Kingdom and the royal family.A belvedere stands on top of columns overlooking the garden.
"We are planning to invite anyone who remembers the royal couple when they lived in Malta to meet us, share their memories and possibly their photos," he said.Pieces of broken statues that were recovered from the garden are piled up in a room. Guardamangia Hill itself was named after a "guardia" or guard, which Maltese and British troops jointly mounted as they trapped French Napoleonic forces for almost two years in Valletta, a successful siege with led the British to take over Malta at the islanders' invitation in 1800.A rolled-up carpet is left in front of a fireplace, inside a room that was once used as the grand hall for receiving guests.
Newspapers chronicled people turning up at the villa to hand her oranges. They reported her going to the cinema and a local hairdresser, enjoying picnics in the countryside and swimming at Sliema beach, three miles from her home. On her most recent visit in 2015, the Queen was presented with a painting of her old home by then-President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca.
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