Her Lotus Year: Wallis Great Peking Love Affair

Wallis’ grand love affair in Peking was with Italian naval officer Alberto de Zara. She mentions him obliquely in her memoirs, but in his 1949 autobiography (Pelle D’Ammiraglio – Skin of an Admiral) da Zara fondly recalls Wallis and their summer together in 1925…. It’s never been translated into English….

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