Dua Lipa and Callum Turner wedding divides Palermo: ‘I could understand if it was for the pope’

C oncetta Chillemi was chatting to friends outside her shop next to Palermo’s gallery for modern art housed in a sublime baroque church in the city’s historic centre. A few metres away, an Italian TV crew had its camera trained on the tiny square in front of the church where event staff in black T-shirts scurried around in the heat. They were preparing for the arrival of the British singer Dua Lipa and the actor Callum Turner, who over the next two days are celebrating their wedding in the Sicilian capital after exchanging vows in London last weekend. Dua Lipa is one of the world’s biggest pop stars, but Chillemi admits she didn’t know who she was until last summer, when the couple holidayed in Palermo soon after their engagement and shared photos on Instagram , including one taken during an aperitivo at a nearby bar. Vans wait to enter Villa Valguarnera in Bagheria, one of the venues hosting the wedding celebrations. Photograph: Alessandro Fucarini/AFP/Getty Curious about all the fuss, Chillemi said she had familiarised herself with Dua Lipa’s music. “I got together with some of the other shop owners here and we listened to a few songs,” she said with a nonplussed shrug. Late on Friday afternoon, the newlyweds are expected to be given a private tour of the Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Palermo , whose collection includes more than 200 19th- and 20th-century masterpieces, before joining their guests in the cordoned-off square. …