In 1958, Romy Schneider met Alain Delon for the first time. Bewitched by the actress of German origin, he falls under her spell on the set of the film Christina. Crazy in love, they became engaged in 1959 during a romantic trip to Italy and were nicknamed by the whole world “European brides“. Interviewed by the JDD May 28, 2022, Anthony Delon’s father returned to the death of his former love, who died at just 43 years old on May 29, 1982 in Paris.
Absent from his funeral, he explains:She was my first big love. I didn’t want to be the target of photographers, it was voyeurism. I went to meditate at her grave a few days later, to be alone with her, without anyone. On the other hand, I went to watch her at her house. I wrote him a letter, which I have often read on television since.” Distraught by the death of Romy Schneider, Alain Delon is looking for a way to keep an eternal trace of her. He then decides to immortalize the actress by photographing her on her deathbed. “I took a photo of her dead on her bed, which I keep in my wallet: Romy looks like she’s in a deep sleep, she’s beautiful. I watch it often…” he says with emotion.
As a reminder, the actor of the film Be beautiful and stop talking had decided to leave Romy Schneider after four years of love, before their marriage. He had fallen in love with another woman, Nathalie (Francine Canovas). A brutal and unexpected break for the pretty blonde who had not seen the sudden departure of her fiancé coming.
“Romy had gone abroad. When she returns to Paris, she joins him in their apartment, and there on the living room table there is a bouquet of flowers, and a note: ‘Reason forces me to say goodbye to you. We lived through our marriage before we got married. Our profession would deprive us of any chance of survival… Don’t be mistaken about the color of these flowers: they are not black roses. I give you back your freedom by leaving you my heart. I left with Nathalie. Forgive me. Alan’“revealed Bernard Pascuito, one of the biographers of the star of Sissi.
Nathalie was the only woman with whom Alain Delon was married. She is the mother of one of his sons, Anthony. He is also the father of Anouchka, born November 25, 1990, and Alain-Fabien, born March 18, 1994 (fruit of his love with Rosalie van Breemen).