Queen Elizabeth had happy memories of Malta often describing the country as her ‘isle of happy memories’. Between 1949 and 1951, while she was still a princess, Queen Elizabeth spent several months in Malta as a young naval wife while her husband Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, was stationed by the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean. (Report by SBS Radio correspondent in Malta, Leonard Callus.) - Ir-reġina Eliżabetta kellha memorji sbieħ ta’ Malta. Ħafna drabi ddeskriviet il-pajjiż bħala ‘gżira ta’ memorji sbieħ.’ Bejn l-1949 u l-1951, meta kienet għadha prinċipessa, ir-Reġina Eliżabetta għaddiet xħur sħaħ f’Malta bħala mara miżżewġa lil Prinċep Philip, id-Duka ta’ Endiburgh, waqt li kien stazzjonat man-Navy Rjali fil-Mediterran. (Rapport mill-korrispondent tal-SBS f’Malta, Leonard Callus.)