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On April 15, 1942, during the height of the siege on Malta in World War II, King George VI awarded the country the George Cross, a medal of his own design creat
Updated 1.15pm Members of the public on Saturday paid tribute to the late Prince Philip by laying flowers at Villa Guardamangia, where he lived while serving in the navy in the late 1940s. The tribute, organised by the Malta George Cross Movement, saw members of the movement, public and Royal Naval Association Malta branch, Malta Command WW2 Living History Group lay wreaths at the steps of the historic villa where Philip and Elizabeth, at the time a princess, lived between 1949 and 1951. The event was documented using photo and video. Elsewhere, in Valletta, people gathered at Upper Bar...
When the late Prince Philip visited Malta’s Polo Club 15 years ago, he expressed surprise that the pitch had not yet been taken over by construction. That’s a memory shared by the club’s honorary secretary Jean Vella. Jean Vella sitting to the left of Prince Philip when he visited the Malta Polo Club in 2015. Polo was one of the Duke of Edinburgh’s many passions. He would often play the sport while stationed in Malta in the 1950s, said Vella, who also met Prince Philip in 2015. And whenever he visited the island following Independence in 1964, he always made time for the club.