Her Lotus Year: Wallis and the Grand Hotel de Pekin

Posted: October 18th, 2024 | No Comments »

You can still find glimpses of the China Wallis knew in 1924/1925 – here the lobby of the old Grand Hotel de Pekin now the Nuo Hotel on Chang’an Avenue – it’s been squeezed by later buildings that all form the hodge-podge of the Beijing Hotel, but elements of the original lobby and central staircase remain just as Wallis would have known them when she checked in just before Christmas 1924….j

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