Her Lotus Year

Before she was the Duchess of Windsor, Bessie Wallis Warfield was Mrs. Wallis Spencer, wife of Earl “Win” Spencer, a US Navy aviator. From humble beginnings in Baltimore, she rose to marry a man who gave up his throne for her. But what made Wallis Spencer, Navy Wife, the woman who could become the Duchess of Windsor? The answers lie in her one-year sojourn in China.

In her memoirs, Wallis described her time in China as her “Lotus Year,” referring to Homer’s Lotus Eaters, a group living in a state of dreamy forgetfulness, never to return home. Though faced with challenges, Wallis came to appreciate traditional Chinese aesthetics. China molded her in terms of her style and provided her with friendships that lasted a lifetime. But that “Lotus Year” would also later be used to damn her in the eyes of the British Establishment.

Her Lotus Year is an untold story in the colorful life of a woman too often maligned by history.

PRODUCT DETAILS : 

ISBN : 9781250287472
BY (AUTHOR) FRENCH PAUL
PUBLISHER : St Martin's Press	PUBLICATION DATE : November 12, 2024
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United States	IMPRINT : St Martin's Press
LANGUAGE : English	AGE : General
PRODUCT FORM : Hardback

PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Biography, Literature & Literary studies
History & Archaeology
Society & Social Sciences