Kathleen, Queen of the Desert

Originally written for a Westminster College writing class, spring 2006. Rudolph “The Sheik” Valentino married his second wife—a great-granddaughter of Mormon patriarch Heber C. Kimball—in 1922 and then again, legally, in 1923. Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy took it from there. “He does not look like your husband. He is not in the least like your brother. [...]