Bertie Castro

Cuba’s President Fidel Castro (R) decorates the Grand Master of the Order of Malta, Prince Fra’ Andrew Bertie, with the order of Jose Marti in Havana in a November 16, 1998 file photo. Andrew Willoughby Ninian Bertie, the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, a group which started as a Christian chivalric and military order more than 900 years ago, has died. The order said on Friday that Bertie, 78, an Englishman who was elected Grand Master in 1988, died in a hospital on February 7, 2008 in Rome, where the order has been based since 1834. REUTERS/Pool (CUBA)