REVIEW - THAT WOMAN: THE LIFE OF WALLIS SIMPSON DUCHESS OF WINDSOR

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REVIEW - THAT WOMAN: THE LIFE OF WALLIS SIMPSON DUCHESS OF WINDSOR

Friday August 26,2011
By Duncan Fallowell

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/267359/Review-That-woman-The-life-of-Wallis-Simpson-Duchess-of-Windsor

ANOTHER book on Mrs Simpson - as our Royal Family continues to call her. But she is one of the most enigmatic, divisive figures of the 20th century so will always attract fresh attention. Much about her remains uncertain even now.

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There were no children. We don't know why. James Pope-Hennessy said she was very odd-looking, flat and angular like a playing card. Sebba advances the theory that Wallis was a pseudo-hermaphrodite and takes up the suggestion of Michael Bloch that she suffered from Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, genetically male with a female body. In the absence of any evidence for this the effect on the reader is surreal.