Wallis Simpson is like the Battle of the Somme ... when Bessie Wallis Winfield Spencer sailed into Hong Kong harbour where her estranged husband Earl Winfield Spencer Jnr, known as Win, was awaiting ...

With Her Lotus Year, Paul French depicts a glitzy period the future Duchess of Windsor spent in China – but she’s too elusive ...

The British government’s supposed 'China Dossier' of Wallis' rumored amorous and immoral activities in the Far East was a damning concoction, portraying her as sordid, debauched, influenced by foreign ...

Wallis went to China in 1924 with her first husband, Earl Winfield Spencer Jr.; after they split up, Wallis toured the country as a single woman, a decade before she’d ultimately meet and charm ...

Wallis Simpson was a victim of a vicious smear campaign ... French said: "They just wanted to scupper this relationship somehow." "If her husband had been stationed in Portsmouth, I don't think ...

As Paul French argues in a new biography, the future Duchess of Windsor’s year in China was less lurid — and more interesting — than her critics knew.

the Roaring Twenties and the Making of Wallis Simpson" by Paul French Wallis went to China in 1924 with her first husband, Earl Winfield Spencer Jr.; after they split up, Wallis toured the country ...