Tag: Duchess of Windsor

• Book Review – Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson by Paul French

  First, thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the ARC of this work of nonfiction, a history of sorts of Wallis Simpson, the late Duchess of Windsor, and the time she spent in China in the mid-1920s. I have long been drawn to nonfiction works about the Royal Family of Great Britain and…

  michardillo

  August 12, 2024

  books

  Baltimore, book-review, books, China, China Dossier, Duchess of Windsor, Duke of Windsor, fiction, Hong Kong, jade, Nazis, nonfiction, reading, Shanghai, Wallis Simpson, WWII

• How “WE” Changed the World

  In a few weeks I will be passing out copies of our next book to read and study in 8th grade literature, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s masterpiece, The Hound of the Baskervilles. It is one of my favorite books and I love teaching it. Along with teaching this great mystery and covering literary elements like…

  michardillo

  March 1, 2015

  Essay

  Albert II, Antonia Fraser, Bahamas, Benedict XVI, Charles, Churchill, Compton’s Encyclopedia, Diamond Jubilee, Duchess of Windsor, Duke of Windsor, Duke of York, Edward & Mrs. Simpson, Edward VIII, Elizabeth II, Frances Donaldson, George VI, Great Britain, Jerrold Packard, King Juan Carlos, Prince Albert, Prince of Wales, Queen Beatrix, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Robert Lacey, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The King’s Speech, Victoria, Wallis, WE, William IV, WWII