In “That Woman,” her solid biography of the woman who was born Bessiewallis Warfield and, on Dec. 10, 1936, became the King of England’s excuse for abdicating his throne, Anne Sebba argues that her subject actually did the world a great favor. By compromising Edward VIII to the point where he could not possibly perform his royal duties, Wallis Simpson (as she became known) may have kept Britain safe from a Nazi sympathizer’s reign.
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