Trivia

As a child she was such an enthusiastic admirer of King Carol of Rumania that one day she threw down a bunch of flowers from her balcony on the royal cortege passing by. That was a period of anarchist terror and so this caused her family some trouble.

Along with her native Romanian, spoke English, French, German and Italian.

She met her first husband, Constantin Cantacuzino, during a troubled flight on a commercial Rumanian airliner. He was the pilot of the plane she was on when one of the engines caught fire. He came back to reassure the passengers. Cantacuzino was purportedly Prince Constantin Cantacuzino. The couple married and eventually fled their Communist-occupied country and lived for a time in Paris, eventually settling in Spain.