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Anne Sebba: “That Woman or the Duchess of Style: time to reassess Wallis Simpson”
2 October 2023 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
This lecture looks at why this Baltimore woman, born in 1896, was so demonised by the British establishment, accused of being a spy, prostitute or Nazi sympathiser, yet how, after she married the ex-King and became Duchess of Windsor, she turned her exile and hatred into a platform from which to launch herself as one of the world’s best dressed women who entertained in the most elegant homes fit for a King. Is it time to reassess her?