Her Lotus Year: Wallis, Win, the USS Pampanga & the US Navy South China Patrol

Posted: October 22nd, 2024 | No Comments »

Of course all the later rumours pushed about in the 1930s by British Intelligence looking to subvert the relationship with Edward VIII said Wallis went to China chasing men, gambling, smoking opium, to learn erotic techniques! In fact she went to Hong Kong to try and reconcile with her troubled first husband Win Spencer, commander of the USS Pampanga (below), one of a couple of ships (old rust buckets seized in the Spanish-American War) that formed the US Navy’s South China Patrol patrolling between Hong Kong and Canton. He was an abusive drunk, and eventually she left him and headed to Shanghai seeking a divorce….

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