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] 
issue 09 November 2024
  • Comments

  • Her Lotus Years: China, The Roaring Twenties and the Making of Wallis Simpson

    Paul French

    Elliott & Thompson, pp. 304, £25

GIF Image

Disagree with half of it, enjoy reading all of it

TRY 3 MONTHS FOR $5
Our magazine articles are for subscribers only. Start your 3-month trial today for just $5 and subscribe to more than one view

Read next

Trending

Thomas Edwards

Pope Francis leaves behind a divided church

Pope Francis’s death at the age of 88 was neither untimely nor a great surprise. Having made what appeared to be a miraculous recovery from double pneumonia and kidney failure – and subsequently turning up at St Peter’s in a poncho just two weeks ago – Francis appeared to have been granted a new lease

More on biography

Also by Caroline Moorehead

Latest

Comments

Join the debate for just £1 a month

Be part of the conversation with other Spectator readers by getting your first three months for £3.

Already a subscriber? Log in