The main romance in Romy’s life was an affair with Alenon Delon. When they met, Romy was already a real star, and Delon was just a novice actor, although the Frenchman was three years older than the Austrian beauty.
But Romy started playing early. She was not even 15 when the producer invited her to play with her mother, the famous actress Magda Schneider, in the film When White Lilies Bloom. And when Romy was 17, she was approved for the role of Princess Elisabeth of Bavaria, nicknamed Sissi – a series of films about her would become a landmark and glorify the young actress throughout Europe.
Relations with Delon were passionate – Schneider called him “the man of her life”, but in the end they made Romy suffer a lot. Alain was not distinguished by fidelity. Everything collapsed when Romy learned from the newspapers of the existence of Alain’s mistress, Natalie Barthelemy, whom he soon married.
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