No couple was as polarizing in the 1930s as ex-king Edward and actress Wallis Simpson. Although the royals were not welcome in Britain, they were literally celebrated in Carinthia. The “Krone” embarked on an exciting journey through time.
It is June 4, 1937. Despite the political abyss that Austria is already facing on the eve of the Second World War, the mood in Arnoldstein is good. The population still flows to the train station at midnight, children cheer, 50 of them in traditional costumes sing a welcome song for the nobles who arrived by train – at the time the most famous glamor couple in the world: Edward VIII and the twice-divorced 40th-year-old American Wallis Simpson, for whom the British king abdicated at the end of 1936.
Source: Krone
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