Her Lotus Year: Wallis and her Shanghai Hotels, 1924

Posted: October 24th, 2024 | No Comments »

In the autumn of 1924 Wallis arrived in Shanghai seeming a divorce in the International Settlement from her abusive first husband, Win Spencer. She stayed at the Palace Hotel on the Bund (now the Swatch Art Peace Hotel) and dined several times at the Grill Room over at the Astor House Hotel (now sadly the little visited China Securities Museum & no longer a hotel). Both properties of Shanghai Hotels Ltd. Turned out she couldn’t get a divorce in Shanghai, but she hung around to see the town and have some fun anyway….

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