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Her Lotus Year – Wallis’s Shanghai Race Club Pass

Posted: December 21st, 2024 | No Comments »

Wallis Simpson (then Spencer) loved horse racing – she went to the autumn races in Shanghai 1924, the spring races at Paomachang in Peking in 1925 and finally squeezed in some late spring/summer meetings back in Shanghai….. more on those courses, clubs, the runners & riders, the parties and who she was with in Her Lotus Year

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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