Caroline Moorehead

‘Life was good, very good, almost too good’ – Wallis Simpson’s year in China

Arriving in Shanghai in the summer of 1924, the elegant 28-year-old embarked on a busy but harmless life of pleasure which would later be cast as a wild debauch

Wallis in 1927, at the time of her divorce from Earl Winfield Spencer. [Bridgeman Images]
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  • Her Lotus Years: China, The Roaring Twenties and the Making of Wallis Simpson

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