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Her Lotus Year: With the Marines in Peking

Posted: May 21st, 2025 | No Comments »

While she was in Peking from December 1924 to July 1925 Wallis, like all Americans, regularly encountered the Fourth Marines who undertook Legation Quarter guard duties – here in winter uniform.

Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties and the Making of Wallis Simpson is available everywhere in hardback, e-book and audiobook now…



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