The Queen and Prince Philip s crumbling former home in Malta where the royals lived between 1949 and 1951 is set to become a museum after £9million restoration
Dilpidated villa in Malta is the only property outside of Britain that the Queen and Prince Philip called home
Two-storey Villa Guardamangia on outskirts of Valletta is undergoing major revamp to turn it into a museum
Five-year project will transform home with the aim of promoting the relationship between Malta and the UK
But huge effort is needed to save the property where the rooms are bare and paint is peeling off the walls
Then-Princess Elizabeth was in first years of her marriage when she lived at the home from 1949 to 1951
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Frank Attard, now 93, snapped them in 1950 at their Villa Guardamangia home
There, the royal pair enjoyed an idyllic two years unrestrained by Royal protocol before Elizabeth s Coronation three years later
Recalling the photocall, he told The Mail on Sunday: Prince Philip gave this two-finger signal as I took their photograph When I sent [it] over to the British newspapers, they said it expressed how they were expecting their second child. Princess Anne was born five months later
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