In the late 1800s, a young English aristocrat named Florence Trevelyan was expelled from polite society for taking up with Queen Victoria’s flirtatious son, Edward VII, who was known as “Dirty Bertie.”
She made a new home for herself in Sicily, first purchasing a small island below the hilltop village of Taormina, and then, around 1890, marrying Salvatore Cacciola, its mayor, and moving into town.
