Her lotus year China, the roaring twenties, and the making of Wallis Simpson
"New York Times bestselling author Paul French examines a controversial and revealing period in the early life of the legendary Wallis, Duchess of Windsor-her one year in China. Before she was the Duchess of Windsor, Bessie Wallis Warfield was Mrs. Wallis Spencer, wife of Earl "Win" Spencer, a US Na...
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
2024.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Back to the beginning
- The years before and the voyage East
- A beautiful vision
- An island amid revolutionary ferment
- The pearl of the Orient
- Twenty-four hours in Typhoid Town
- Chance Encounters in Peking
- A hutong heaven
- Jade hunting at the thieves' market
- Temple Weekends
- Cinderella in the legation quarter
- Romance at the End of the Great Wall
- Cheering ponies and cherry brandy
- The lotus-eater's dream shattered : leaving China
- A new start.
