PRAISE FOR THE WINDSOR AFFAIR:
“Melanie Benjamin delivers another brilliant historical about two spicy, colorful women involved in a juicy, scandalous rivalry inside the royal family. Exceptional and entertaining, full of dazzle, glitter and grace, The Windsor Affair is a book you’ll devour in one day.”—Kim Michele Richardson, author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
“Elegant, atmospheric, and meticulously observed, The Windsor Affair is Melanie Benjamin at her most compelling. With a novelist’s eye and a historian’s instincts, she ushers us into a rarefied world that simply hums with rumor, ambition, and desire.”—Jennifer Robson, author of The Gown
“Melanie Benjamin turns her pen, with splashy, incisive glee, on the epic rivalry between two royal women.”—Kate Quinn, author of The Astral Library
“This is the novel to dive into if you want a juicy royal family saga where the stakes could not be higher. It’s Benjamin’s finest book to date.” —Renee Rosen, author of Let’s Call Her Barbie
“The Crown meets The Real Housewives in The Windsor Affair. I loved all of it. Historical fiction has never been so much fun.”—Abbott Kahler, author of Eden Undone
“Melanie Benjamin transforms a notorious royal chapter into a delicious story filled with scandal, ambition, rivalries, and heartbreak: totally compelling, completely unputdownable.”—Rebecca Armitage, author of The Heir Apparent
“If you thought you knew everything there was to know about Windsor and Wally, think again. For fans of The Crown and The King’s Speech, this is heaven-sent.”—Louis Bayard, author of The Wildes
“The Windsor Affair is a scathing delight.”—Sarah McCoy, author of Whatever Happened to Lori Lovely?
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ABOUT THE WINDSOR AFFAIR:
A scandalous affair. A power struggle for the throne. A sensational rivalry between an English queen and an American social climber. In this electrifying novel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue tells the story of the Abdication of Edward VIII—and the two women at the center of it all.
“As deliciously dishy as an English cream tea and the royal gossip whispered over it!”—Kate Quinn, author of The Astral Library
Feuding Windsor brothers and their wives—some things, it seems, never change. The Windsor Affair recreates the cataclysmic events that nearly toppled the monarchy and incited the power struggle between Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and Wallis Simpson. Told from the perspective of both women, the novel propels readers into the fabulous world of the debonair Prince of Wales, café society of the 1930s, and the glittering private lives of the Windsors. The first novel to be dedicated to this infamous rivalry, The Windsor Affair brings us all the gossip and intrigue between the two very different—yet perhaps more similar than they would admit—wives of royals.
As Queen, Elizabeth would become the symbol of British pluck and courage during World War II and remain a British institution the rest of her long life. Wallis would be forever forced to enact the World’s Greatest Love Story even after it sours, as she goes from being admired to vilified and, ultimately, pitied. Against the backdrop of the Abdication Crisis, World War II, coronations, funerals, births, and deaths, these two women maintain a biting, sharp-tongued feud—until age and the long arm of history bring about a kind of understanding. For the last communication between these bitter rivals was a simple, surprising message: “In friendship, Elizabeth.”
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
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Melanie Benjamin is the New York Times bestselling author of The Children’s Blizzard, Mistress of the Ritz, The Girls in the Picture, The Swans of Fifth Avenue, The Aviator’s Wife, The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb, and Alice I Have Been. Benjamin lives in Chicago, Illinois, where she is at work on her next historical novel.
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