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Notable Visitors at The Greenbrier


Duke and Duchess of Windsor

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The Duke and Duchess of Windsor were frequent Greenbrier guests in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In this 1950 photo, they are on the left with their friends Jinx Falkenberg and her husband, Tex McCrary. The Duke of Windsor was the former King Edward VIII of England who abdicated to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson in 1936. They took the titles Duke and Duchess of Windsor.



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