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Why Princess Diana still reigns supreme on Malta

Source: Saskia O’Donoghue

Ah, here we are – more visitors to the ‘museum’.”

It’s a common experience for brothers Noel and Silvio Farrugio who own Diana’s pub in the tourist hot spot of Qawra in Malta: seeing open-mouthed fans of the late Princess trying to take in the hundreds of pieces of memorabilia on show.

While it must be irritating for the pair when people walk in, gawp, take pictures then leave without buying a drink, the pub has been attracting locals and tourists alike for years. Set up by Noel and Silvio’s late father – a great fan of the iconic royal – in the early 1990s, it was renamed after

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