Continuing in the theme of first-hand accounts of Rudolph Valentino's lovers, a reader forwarded excerpts from Robert Wainwright's Sheila: The Australian Beauty Who Bewitched British Society. I think it is a fitting inclusion, thank the reader for their contribution and post a few pages from a longer passage on the Lady Loughborough and Valentino affair.
The first pages are from the account which took place on New Year's Eve 1925 in “Jade's”, a club in London... we pick up the action with Sheila entering the club after some issues with the club's owner, May Meyrick.... Sheila makes her entrance accompanied by Valentino:
And an account of the infamous party in Falcon Lair:
The Lady Sheila Loughborough:
