Marie Regina Millington-Drake (1924-1973) (Duchess of Carcaci), an adventurous traveller, who whilst living in Cyprus (where she built Villa Fortuna at Ayios Epiktitos, now known as Villa Firtina and used as the Turkish Ambassador’s summer residence) had been the lover of the author Lawrence Durrell and had featured (as "Marie") in his auto-biographical novel Bitter Lemons (1957) and later (as "Martine") in his Sicilian Carousel (1977), largely a tribute to her.
Marie Regina Millington-Drake, Duchess of Carcaci, was an adventurous woman who lived in Cyprus, where she built Villa Fortuna at Ayios Epiktitos. She was the lover of author Lawrence Durrell and featured as "Marie" in his novel "Bitter Lemons" (1957) and later as "Martine" in his book "Sicilian Carousel" (1977), which is a tribute to her.