Super One contingent makes it to Buckingham Palace at last
Malta government Department of Information press release no PR2686 dated today:
HIGH COMMISSIONER OF MALTA PRESENTS HIS CREDENTIALS TO HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II
On Wednesday, 27 November 2013, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was graciously pleased to receive Mr Norman Hamilton in audience at Buckingham Palace for the presentation of the Letters of Recall of his predecessor Mr Joseph Zammit Tabona and his own Letters of Credence, accrediting Mr Norman Hamilton as High Commissioner of the Republic of Malta to the Court of St James’s.
High Commissioner Mr Norman Hamilton was accompanied by his wife, Mrs Josette Hamilton, first Secretary Mr Clint Borg and first Secretary at the Malta High Commission, London Ms Chirelle Sciberras. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II received Mr Norman Hamilton in private audience. The Queen remarked on the excellent relations between the United Kingdom and Malta and reminisced on recollections of her lengthy stays on the island.
As a memento of this special occasion, the High Commissioner purposely commissioned and presented Her Majesty with a watercolour painting of Villa Gwardamangia in Pieta’ by Maltese artist John Martin Borg. Her Majesty accepted this gift and remarked it will rekindle some of Her Majesty’s fondest youthful memories, when living there as a Princess between 1949 and 1951. The Queen expressed a wish to revisit this residence if she next visits Malta. The High Commissioner pledged to continue Mabel Strickland OBE’s tradition of sending a box of Maltese oranges to Buckingham Palace every Christmas.
Before leaving, High Commissioner Mr Norman Hamilton expressed his gratitude for the cooperation and assistance given by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office to the Malta High Commission and augured his term in London would contribute towards the further strengthening of Anglo-Maltese relations.
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Maybe only a few know that the new ambassador’s father is Robert Hamilton, who was a prominent member of the Constitutional Party and was appointed Speaker in the pre-war legislative assembly.
[Daphne – Which only makes his fall greater and his behaviour cheaper, of course.]
David has it wrong. Norman’s father was called Oliver, not Robert.
Lived in Point street .
Surely he meant a box of Chinese pandas?
Clive Waters has gone to London to see the Queen. Who’d have thought, eh?
Queen gives Waters a break
Chinese pandas cost the equivalent of one Maltese passport a year – and that’s just rent, not outright ownership.
I expected the watercolour to be painted by the impressive Kenneth Zammit Tabona.
I suspect you are not the only one. Kitten must be gutted.
Oh that unimpressive painter of impressively ugly artefacts.
They commissioned a real artist for a change.
“Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was graciously pleased to receive Mr Norman Hamilton”.
She must be really excited to meet somebody who worked in Soho.
The words “particularly in the Soho area” are missing from the end of the last paragraph.
What I am seeing in his hands is a cruise brochure.
I hope Mr Hamilton knows the condition of Villa Gaurdamanga before he invites Her Majesty over to rekindle her those memories. On the other hand this could be an opportunity to restore this monument of a building.
[Daphne – It’s privately owned and, quite frankly, nobody else’s business.]
Qabza fil-kwalita.
“”Expressed his gratitude for the co-operation and assistance given by the UK FCO to the Malta High Commission….”.
What on earth is he on about? As if an Embassy should depend on assistance from its host country’s Foreign Ministry. What are they doing that requires this assistance? Totally clueless.
Fl-ahhar irnexxielu Clive Waters.
On a separate note, our PM visited Malta Comic Con this morning, trying to be ‘cool’ with the geek/nerd crowd.
You could hear him laughing from a mile away, while everyone round him smiled politely. Poor sod. More of his “British humour”, most probably.
Of course you could tell he didn’t know who the “stars” of the convention were because he barely stopped at their tables. Joseph Muscat thinks he can associate himself with nerds just because he was a twat during his school days (big difference), and now that nerds are cool, he still sticks out like a sore thumb.
My admiration for two of my favourite artists swelled when, as soon as he moved on to another table, one turned to the other and said, “Well, that was bizarre.”
Deo gratias – the Maltese in London now have a face. We love you, Clive Waters.
David – Norman Hamilton’s father was OLIVER and not Robert; he was a staunch supporter of Floriana F.C. and worked as a civilian Clerk with the Army at the Ordnance Depot which is now part of the Police HQ as wellas the Castille.
Freddie
Who had said “Clive Waters kien ikanta fuq il-latrina ta’ Ghar id-Dud”?
High Commissioner to the court of St James via singing near the public toilets at Ghar id-Dud, lurking in the doorways of Soho clubs, and cheapening himself further (was that possible?) on Super One.
Only in Malta.
“The Queen expressed a wish to revisit this residence if she next visits Malta.”
The building is a shambles.