Exhibition on queen

In the feature article on the photographic exhibition on the queen in Malta, your dates of royal visits are not altogether correct - she was here in 1967, not 1968, as queen of Malta.

The British High Commissioner is to be congratulated for setting up the exhibition but this should have been displayed in a more accessible part of Valletta rather than the Mediterranean Conference Centre.

Also, while the exhibition mentions the person who provided photographs, there is no credit at all to the Times of Malta which holds the copyright, or to the photographers who took the pictures, Frank Attard, Charles B. Grech and Alfred Scicluna.

None of the events are identified and the photographs are not displayed in their proper sequence.

The exhibition also fails to mention she was queen of Malta between 1964 and 1974 or that she signed the proclamation granting Malta her independence from the British crown.

The originals of most of those photographs I handled as I was both pictures editor and news editor of the Times of Malta, besides being the reporter with her when she was princess.

The negatives were lost when Labour Party thugs set fire to The Times building in 1979 but prints of all of them still exist in the albums at the royal archives at Windsor as Miss Alice Amato, a director, and I used to compile these for the queen recording all her activities.

Her Majesty brought these albums with her in Britannia in 1992 as she wanted to see the changes made in Malta since her stays as a naval wife in 1949-51.