Six months after shocking the world by abdicating the British throne, the Duke of Windsor—formerly King Edward VIII-- married Wallis Simpson on #ThisDayInHistory in 1937. The Duke claimed he could not carry out his duties as king “without the help and support” of the woman he loved, a 41-year-old American who had been married, divorced, and married again by the time she met Edward. With the British government, the Church of England, and his family all opposing their marriage, even after she divo

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This is Rebecca Latimer Felton — born in 1835, and 94 years old at the time of this interview nearly a century ago! Felton was a writer, reformer, and political trailblazer who lived through some of the most transformative periods in American history—from the Civil War to women’s suffrage. In 1922, at age 87, she became the first woman to serve in the United States Senate, even if only for a single day. At the time of this rare interview, filmed in 1929, Felton reflected on nearly a century of c