Was Wallis Simpson all woman?
There's been always been speculation about her sexual make-up. Now in a major reassessment her biographer uncovers new evidence
Recent research suggests that she might well have been born with what’s currently called a Disorder of Sexual Development (DSD) or intersexuality, which affects about 4,000 babies annually in the UK.
Some of its effects are so subtle that, even today, doctors delivering babies with ambiguous genitals cannot be immediately certain if they are holding a boy or a girl.
This does not mean that Wallis was a man, and she was certainly not a freak. In fact, it’s unlikely that she’d have known that anything was wrong, at least for many years.
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Extracted from THAT WOMAN: The Life Of Wallis Simpson, Duchess Of Windsor by Anne Sebba, to be published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson on August 31 at £20. © 2011 Anne Sebba. To order a copy for £16.99 (incl p&p) call 0843 382 0000.
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