But more sensational journalists and biographers could have leapt to conclusions about the 'internal problem' couldn't they? I mean, it could have been an abortion, who knows. It could also have been a growth on the bowel, on the neck of the womb, stomach ulcers, kidney trouble, intestinal infestations due to her travels, anything really. And by Wallis's time in China she had already been married to her first husband for quite a number of years.
I'm inclined to go with Sebba here. I accept -although she doesn't entirely fit the bill- the possibility that she may have been intersex. We know about her first husband's cruelty and alcoholism, but we don't know what MAY have been the trigger. I'm actually prepared to accept that, even after three marriages, she MAY have been a virgin. Might those lessons she allegedly learned in China have been to compensate for the fact she was unable to have penetrative sex, and wouldn't such lessons have stood her in very good stead if she found herself with, say, an underdeveloped lover?
Of course, there maybe all manner of reasons why her birth remained unregistered for as long as it did, but was there some doubt about her gender? Like many, she managed, by clever dressing-and unlimited funds!!- to minimize, the features she didn't like and enhance those she did, but there was nothing she could do, save to wear gloves, which thankfully were de riguer, to cover her very large and ugly hands, totally out of proportion with the rest of her tiny frame.
Whilst this is all highly speculative, I remain convinced that spiritually, emotionally, psychologically, physiologically, Wallis and Edward fulfilled each other's needs, albeit, there were probably times, of stultifying boredom, when she may have wished it wasn't so. The lunch may have been luxurious but she paid a high price for it.