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.