Duke and Duchess of Windsor at the Plaza Hotel, 1946

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The Duke and Duchess of Windsor dance at the December Ball at the Plaza Hotel in New York City on this day in 1946, during a benefit for a disabled veterans’ musical instruction. The Ball was on the 10th Anniversary of the Abdication of King Edward VIII, who left the Throne to marry the twice-divorced Wallis Simpson.

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