Her Lotus Year: Wallis and her Chinese Gods

While in Peking visiting the temples of the city and nearby Western Hills Wallis became fascinated by the plethora of Chinese gods and their statues. And clearly it was a fascination that lasted as when in Man Ray’s Paris studio in the mid-1930s for a portrait she immediately reached for a statue of a Chinese god as her chosen prop – inadvertently giving me a terrific book cover!

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