July 10 2025 – Wallis in China – UK Paperback Published

Posted: July 10th, 2025 | No Comments »

I’m rather pleased with this UK paperback of Her Lotus Year…. thanks to all at Elliot & Thompson in London… many thanks to Anne Sebba, Amanada Foreman and Lisa See for their blurbs, and also to Caroline Moorehead in The Spectator and the legendary Nicky Haslam in The Oldie for their kind words.

The cover image is Cecil Beaton by the way….(more below)

Available from July 10 everywhere books are sold in the UK…

For those interested in the cover image. It is Wallis shot by Cecil Beaton for the British edition of Vogue on December 2, 1936. The portrait is one of six of Wallis Simpson in the Cecil Beaton photography exhibition that opened at Caroll Carstairs’ New York gallery at #11 East 57th Street on January 4, 1937 around the time British Vogue called Wallis “The Best Dressed Woman in Town”.

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