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Schedule

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2009
Location: Windsor Complex

7:00 - 8:30 pm Cocktail Party
8:30pm Optional dinner -- 1600 Ocean Boulevard

6:30-8:30 pm
Location: Coronado Library
Hugo Vickers Windsor 101 lecture for the general public at the Coronado Library (free to the public but requires advance reservations. Capacity is limited to 150)

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2009
Location: Windsor Complex

8:00-9:00 am Registration

9:00-9:45 am Conference Introduction

10:00 to 10:45 am
VISIT TO THE DUCHESS COTTAGE with Hotel del Coronado historian

11:00am-2:15 pm BUS TOUR departure with BAG LUNCH. Visit the homes that Wallis lived in in San Diego and Coronado, tour of naval airbase that Wallis' first husband Ernest Simpson helped establish, visit the Duke & Duchess of Windsor exhibition sponsored by the Society at the Coronado Library, drive by Balboa Park and Old Town

2:30pm-3:15 pm
THE CORONADO LEGEND: Did Wallis & Edward originally meet at the Hotel del Coronado in 1920?
presentation Research from DR. Benjamin Sacks

3:30pm-5:30 pm
HUGO VICKERS PROGRAM
The British historian/biographer shares his Windsor connection since the early 70's and his experience researching and writing the book The Private World of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor
Questions/Answers and booksigning to follow

Featured Speaker: Society Member Hugo Vickers, historian/biographer (The Private World of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor) and the upcoming Behind Closed Doors: The Life and Death of the Duchess of Windsor, with book-signing

THE WINDSOR GALA EVENING
Dress: Coctail Attire (men with coats & jackets)

7:00 to 8:30 pm
Location: Windsor Complex
COCKTAIL PARTY with performance of UNTITLED by Society Member, Lena Farugia, South African-based actress and playwright will be performing scenes from her Duchess of Windsor play, Untitled, which was recently staged in London at the Farnborough Theater.

8:30pm
Multi-course meal with wine in the Coronet Room

Dessert--entertainment will include select songs from the new Windsor musical, Wallis & Edward: The Love Story of the Century? Book, lyrics and some music by Erv Raible, longtime director/coach on Broadway and Cabaret and the Executive Director of the Interational Confernce of Cabaret at Yale University. Noted musical director Shelly Markham will be accompniest and a performer along with Chicago singer/actress Jillann Gabrielle.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2009
Location: Windsor Complex

8:30 to 9:00am
REGISTRATION In CROWN ROOM

9:00 to 9:15am Opening Remarks

9:15 to 10:15 am
DEAN LEO’S PRESENTATION with Q&A Session

Society Member, The Very Reverend James Leo, former dean of the American Cathedral in Paris was the Duchess of Windsor’s vicar for the last years of her life. Dean Leo attended at her death as well as her burial at Frogmore. Dean Leo wrote about his experiences in a book titled, Exits and Entrances. Book-signing to follow

10:00 to 11:15 am
RENE SILVEN’S PRESENTATION with Q&A

Society Member Richard René Silvin was the Hospital Administrator for the American Hospital in Paris in the early 70’s and was friends with the Duchess of Windsor, who was a on the hospital's Board of Governors. Silvin is the author of two memoirs, Walking the Rainbow and I Survived Swiss Boarding Schools and is currently working on another memoir, Nobless Oblige, which will cover his friendship with the Duchess



11:15 to 11:45
FOLLOW UP Q&A WITH Lena Farugia

12:15 to 1:15pm
BUFFET LUNCH in WINDSOR COMPLEX
BOOK SIGNING for LEO and SILVIN

2:15 to 5:15pm
VIEWING the video The Demonized Duchess by producer Christine Carter (co-producer with HRH Prince Edward, Edward on Edward
PANEL/GROUP DISCUSSION

MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2009
Location: To be announced

9:00-12:00 pm To be announced

12:00 The First Member Conference adjourns



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