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British Queen to visit Malta for Commonwealth meeting in Nov.

Xinhua, March 9, 2015 Adjust font size:

Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by her husband Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh, will visit Malta during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) which will be held here from November 27 to 29, the Maltese government announced Monday.

The Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Duchess of Cornwall, will also attend CHOGM in support of the Queen.

The Royal visit will be the monarch's return to CHOGM after she missed the last meeting in Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2013 -- the first meeting she was unable to attend in 40 years, according to local reports.

The Queen, who will be 89 in November and Prince Philip, 93, lived in Malta in their early married life between 1949 and 1951, when Elizabeth was princess and Prince Philip was an officer in the Mediterranean Fleet.

As Queen, Elizabeth visited Malta several times, including in November 2005, when Malta hosted CHOGM for the first time. In November 2007, she came here on what was called her "second honeymoon" -- marking the 60th anniversary of her marriage. Endite