Villa Guardamangia is a mid-18th-century townhouse in Gwardamangia, Pieta, Malta, built of limestone in a vernacular and Neoclassical style and remodeled around 1900 by owner Sir Augusto Bartolo into the palace-like residence that survives today. Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, and Prince Philip lived there from 1949 to 1951 while Philip served as a Royal Navy officer on the island, and the Queen later called those years among the best of her life. The villa fell into disrepair over subsequent decades until the Government of Malta acquired it in October 2019 and placed it in the care of Heritage Malta for restoration as a Grade 2 scheduled monument. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Villa Guardamangia (Italian – 'look' and 'eat'), formerly known as Casa Medina and sometimes referred to as Casa Guardamangia, is a 16,791-square-foot (1,559.9 m2) townhouse in Gwardamanġa, Pietà, Malta, which served as the residence of Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh (later Queen Elizabeth II), and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, between 1949 and 1951, while Philip was stationed in Malta as a serving Royal Navy officer.
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