Welcome to the history tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

Hello, and welcome to the show. This is Beckett, and this is Susan, and we are here because next week, we're going to have a special treat for you with the author of one of the books that we use in this particular episode.

So we thought that that was a wonderful tie-in to Wallace Simpson.

Sometimes authors we've loved in the past come out with new work that we really love.

Such a one is Anne Sabah, who next week Susan interviewed her. And we will have a special interview show.

She has a book coming out about the women's orchestra in Auschwitz.

So stay tuned for that.

But she also wrote a spectacular book about Wallace Simpson.

And so from the Wayback Machine of 2017, which seems like yesterday,

frankly, but in fact is the better part of a decade ago, we bring you our formerly double

episode, but currently single episode, on the controversial Duchess herself. And so now, without further ado,

on with the show. And here's your 30-second summary. He was just a boy with a silver spoon

standing in front of a girl from Baltimore, asking her to love him. The end. Let's talk about Wallace Simpson.

But first, let's drop her into history. In 1937, Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for her first

and only novel Gone with the Wind. The first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman's Aerobile, took its first

successful flight, but that year the Hindenburg disaster and Amelia Earhart's disappearance occurred.

The World's Fair was held in Paris. The Lincoln Tunnel connecting New Jersey to Manhattan

and the Golden Gate Bridge opened. On May 12th, the spare British Royal King George the 6th had his coronation.

And on June 3rd of 1937, the former British king who had abdicated that throne married

the woman he loves, American Wallace Simpson, and the greatest or messiest love story of the world takes a

permanent place in history. Bessie Wallace Warfield was born on June 19, 1896, the first and only child

of Tico Wallace Warfield and his wife, Alice Montague Warfield. Wallace was born in a small house

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