Her Lotus Year – Remembering Wallis in the Ballroom of the Grand Hotel de Pekin

Posted: March 27th, 2025 | No Comments »

The Royal Asiatic Society hosted a dinner in the ballroom of the old Grand Hotel de Pekin (now the Hotel Nuo) – where Wallis checked in when she first arrived in Peking just before Christmas 1924. It was an amazing evening – the brave went for 1920s costume, the British Ambassador came, and we all took a photo on the lobby staircase Wallis must have gone up and down a dozen times or more. You can imagine how mind blowing for me this all was!

Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties and the Making of Wallis Simpson is available everywhere in hardback, e-book and audiobook now…

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