Doylestown: Melanie Benjamin // THE WINDSOR AFFAIR
Join us in welcoming New York Times best-selling author Melanie Benjamin to Doylestown, PA, as she discusses and signs her new book, The Windsor Affair, at The Doylestown Bookshop on Wednesday, November 18th, 2026, at 6:30 pm. This is a ticketed event. Each ticket includes admission for one person and a hardcover copy of The Windsor Affair. DATE: Wednesday, November 18th, 2026 at 6:30 pm LOCATION: The Doylestown Bookshop, 16 S. Main Street, Doylestown, PA 18901 THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT - HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Doors open at 5:30 pm, and the event will start at 6:30 pm.Each ticket admits one person and includes one hardcover copy of The Windsor Affair. No substitutions.Books will be available for pick-up at the event.The author will sign and personalize books with your first name only, with no messages. She will not be able to sign any posters, bookmarks, scraps of paper, etc...You may bring TWO books from home to be signed by the author in addition to anything purchased in the store during the event.An adult must accompany children under 16.If you cannot attend the event, we will hold your books at the front counter of The Doylestown Bookshop for pick-up. We will do our best to have them signed, but that is not guaranteed. We can hold books for up to two weeks. Any books that have not been picked up or arranged to be shipped by the two-week mark will be donated. Please give us 24 hours post-event to prepare your books for pick-up.Event tickets are non-refundable .About the book: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 LibraryFeuding 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.” About our Guest:Melanie Benjamin is a prize-winning novelist and New York Times bestselling author of California Golden, 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.