Her Lotus Year (China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson)

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New York Times bestselling author Paul French examines a controversial and revealing period in the early life of the legendary Wallis, Duchess of Windsorā€“her one year in China.

Before she was the Duchess of Windsor, Bessie Wallis Warfield was Mrs. Wallis Spencer, wife of Earl ā€œWinā€ Spencer, a US Navy aviator. From humble beginnings in Baltimore, she rose to marry a man who gave up his throne for her. But what made Wallis Spencer, Navy Wife, the woman who could become the Duchess of Windsor? The answers lie in her one-year sojourn in China.

In her memoirs, Wallis described her time in China as her ā€œLotus Year,ā€ referring to Homerā€™s Lotus Eaters, a group living in a state of dreamy forgetfulness, never to return home. Though faced with challenges, Wallis came to appreciate traditional Chinese aesthetics. China molded her in terms of her style and provided her with friendships that lasted a lifetime. But that ā€œLotus Yearā€ would also later be used to damn her in the eyes of the British Establishment.

The British governmentā€™s supposed ā€œChina Dossierā€ of Wallisā€™s rumored amorous and immoral activities in the Far East was a damning concoction, portraying her as sordid, debauched, influenced by foreign agents, and unfit to marry a king. Instead, French, an award-winning China historian, reveals Wallis Warfield Spencer as a woman of tremendous courage who may have acted as a courier for the US government, undertaking dangerous undercover diplomatic missions in a China torn by civil war.

Her Lotus Year is an untold story in the colorful life of a woman too often maligned by history.

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Author:
Paul French
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
320
Publisher:
St. Martin's Publishing Group (November 12, 2024)
Release Date:
November 12, 2024
Language:
English
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General/trade
ISBN-13:
9781250287472
ISBN-10:
1250287472
Weight:
16oz
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5.38" x 8.25" x 1"
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Macmillan Trade
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