> Khalid performed the ceremony over the Channel with Gladys taking the name Khair ul Nissa.<p>"Khair ul* Nissa"?! This cannot be a coincidence? That was also the name of a young Hyderabadi noblewoman who married the earlier English convert to Islam, James Achilles Kirkpatrick** [1][2]. It caused controversy in Hyderabadi society at the time, but after Kirkpatrick's death, it became widely(?) seen in England as having been a devoted relationship and a very romantic story. IIRC it was Thomas Carlyle who said Kirkpatrick had "scaled walls for" Khair un Nissa. So I will guess that Gladys had heard that story.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Achilles_Kirkpatrick" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Achilles_Kirkpatrick</a><p>[2] Dalyrumple. <i>White Mughals</i>.<p>* Shouldn't that be "un"?<p>** How good is that name?