Marie-Claire Chappet

There is a magic to Sicily that people tell you about. Those who visit seem to leave with it imprinted upon their hearts. They are evangelical about it. You must, they say, go to Sicily. When you get there yourself, it is easy to see why.This wild island in the Mediterranean has a charm and a mysticism all if its own. Thanks to thousands of years of conquest and change, Sicily is replete with layer upon layer of history – from Moorish palaces and Gothic marvels to crumbling Greek temples, fading…

A cursory scroll through your social media, news feed or TV streamers this weekend would have made you believe you had somehow stepped back in time to 2006. Netflix’s four-part Beckham documentary has proved an overnight hijacker of the zeitgeist, much as the eponymous couple themselves were in the nineties and early noughties. Of all the takeaways from the series – the fashion, the homes – one aspect has felt jarring: the treatment of the WAGs. What comes to mind when you hear the word WAG? Wha…