Ethelwald Emilius Vella (July 9) calls for the University of Malta's royal title to be restored because, as he puts it, its present one is "plain and bald".
The university has made great strides forward since Dr Vella's student days and no longer needs a royal title to demonstrate its substance. Besides, and, with all due respect to British royals and local royalists, it would be a misnomer to call the Republic of Malta's only university "royal".