The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh sailed through Valletta harbour on the second day of their trip to the island nation.

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HMS Urge and HMS Upholder – the first two of which sank off the coast of Malta in 1942. The royal couple paid a visit to the Maritime Museum in Birgu (Aarown Chown/PA) The duke and duchess then ...

Defending Malta were the Knights of St. John ... Despite being vastly outnumbered, the defenders held firm, using their fortress city of Birgu and the stronghold of Fort St. Elmo to great effect.

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The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh are in our country as part of the celebrations for the 60th anniversary of Malta’s independence from British rule in 1964. At the Maritime Museum in Birgu, which has ...

The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh have sailed through the harbour in Malta before throwing a wreath and posy into the sea to commemorate British and Maltese lives lost during the Second World War.

Accompanied by the armed forces of Malta, the duke threw a wreath and the duchess a posy of flowers into the water before a gun salute sounded from one of the city’s high points. Earlier in the ...