The Repulse Bay Hotel was once Hong Kong's go-to spot, with exquisite dining and solace from a troubled world - it even ...

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Wallis Simpson is like the Battle of the Somme: so much has already been written, yet there still seems to be more to say. Do we really need another book about the twice-divorced woman for whom a king ...

With Her Lotus Year, Paul French depicts a glitzy period the future Duchess of Windsor spent in China – but she’s too elusive ...

However, Anna Pasternak, author of The American Duchess: The Real Wallis Simpson, believes that Simpson was a “convenient ...

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The Duchess of Sussex has made it known she was treated with hostility but there's one nickname from a senior royal she may ...

EXCLUSIVE: In the newly-published 'Her Lotus Year', biographer Paul French forensically takes apart the China dossier - and debunks the stories made up around Wallis Simpson. Here Christopher ...

As Paul French argues in a new biography, the future Duchess of Windsor’s year in China was less lurid — and more interesting — than her critics knew.

Long before she was Queen Camilla, the former Duchess of Cornwall (known before ... one royal bride in particular was loathed and vilified: Wallis Simpson. Wallis, an American, was twice divorced ...

Pasternak, who wrote the 2019 book The American Duchess: The Real Wallis Simpson, said Edward had “this kind of ferocious, obsessive love for her — he was never going to let her go.” ...