Her Lotus Year: Touching Old Hong Kong

I’d suggest it’s perhaps harder to visualise the Hong Kong Wallis experienced than it is to envisage the Shanghai or Peking she knew in 1924/1925. Shikumen and lilong remain, the Bund remains, hutongs too (just about)…. But old Hong Kong is almost impossible to touch now. Here an autumn rainy day on Queen’s Road Central in the mid-1920s with Chinese men in windmill palm rainproof capes pulling a Cold Storage ice wagon. Photo by William Stewart.

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