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

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Wallis Simpson is like the Battle of the Somme: so much has already been written, yet there still seems to be ...

Wallis Simpson was a victim of a vicious smear campaign as she grew close to the former Prince of Wales. The royal couple ...

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

Lurid gossip aimed at steering King Edward VIII away from the American divorcee was an attempt to "scupper this relationship ...

The British government’s supposed 'China Dossier' of Wallis' rumored amorous and immoral activities in the Far East was a damning concoction, portraying her as sordid, debauched, influenced by foreign ...

Few women have had more written about them, mostly of a critical, salacious nature, than Wallis Simpson, the American divorcee for whom Edward VIII gave up his crown. Much of the gossip has fed ...

Long before Meghan Markle, Wallis Simpson was the target of a vicious smear campaign by the British establishment.

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.

The items were all auctioned off after the duchess’ death in 1986, with these coming to sale again in the late 1990s Keepsakes belonging to the late Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson ...

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 ...