At the opposite end of the Continent to ourselves, Sicily has always been an attraction for the English who, from the vantage of Europe’s historically most stable society, have gazed with fascination at perhaps its least stable.
There were already links between us in the age of the Normans, who conquered Sicily at roughly the same time as they conquered us.
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