| International Standard Book Number |
9798331715441
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| Personal Name |
Benjamin, Melanie, 1962- author.
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| Title Statement |
The Windsor affair playaway / Melanie Benjamin.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Solon, Ohio : Playaway Products, LLC, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
1 audio media player (11 hr., 20 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
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| General Note |
Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
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| General Note |
One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.
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| General Note |
Previously released by Penguin Random House.
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| Participant or Performer Note |
Read by Clare Corbett.
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| Summary, Etc. |
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, cafe 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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| Subject-Personal Name |
Windsor, House of Fiction.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Windsor, Edward, Duke of, 1894-1972 Abdication Fiction.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Windsor, Wallis Warfield, Duchess of, 1896-1986 Fiction.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Elizabeth, Queen, consort of George VI, King of Great Britain, 1900-2002 Fiction.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-2022 Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Man-woman relationships Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Nobility Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Royal houses Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Vendetta Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Great Britain History George VI, 1936-1952 Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Audiobooks.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Playaway (Brand name)
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Corbett, Clare, narrator.
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| Added Entry, Corporate Name |
Playaway Digital Audio, issuing body.
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| Added Entry, Corporate Name |
Playaway Products, LLC, issuing body.
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