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Wallis Simpson was the woman who scandalized not merely high society, but the entire British Empire. When, in 1936, King Edward VIII proposed to the twice-divorced American socialite, it triggered a constitutional crisis that led to his abdication. He became the first and – to date – only British monarch to relinquish the crown.
So what was Simpson’s secret? How had she enticed Edward off his throne? If rumors are to be believed, it was with aid of a trick learned in the brothels of the East.
Wallis first arrived in China on September 8, 1924, when she traveled to meet her first husband, Earl Winfield Spencer, Jr. – known as Win – who was serving as commander of the gunboat Pampanga in Hong Kong. Win was an alcoholic and would take her along to brothels with him, and it is from here that the reports of her adeptness in exotic, erotic arts were formed.