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Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer’s Life Together

I had an awfully good time this summer following Edith Windsor around. For my Profile of her in this week’s issue, I was forced to visit her in Southampton, in late July, at the house she bought as a birthday present for her late spouse, Thea Spyer, in 1968. As you can see in our slide show, they were both inordinately glamorous, and Edie remains so.

  • Edith Windsor with a photograph of Thea Spyer taken during their first trip together to Suriname in the nineteensixties....
  • Windsor and Spyer at the beach in 1969. Photograph from Edith Windsors personal collection.
  • Windsor and Spyer outside their house in the Hamptons 1969. Photograph from Edith Windsors personal collection.
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Edith Windsor with a photograph of Thea Spyer taken during their first trip together, to Suriname, in the nineteen-sixties. Photograph by Max Vadukul.