Consuelo de Saint-Exupery in 1934

I remember when I was a girl my Mother (Nancie) always said that Consuelo had the most amazing red hair. From what I have read about her she had quite a fiery relationship with her husband, Antoine de Saint-Exupery. She was born Consuelo Suncin de Sandoval in El Salvador, the daughter of a wealthy coffee- grower. She went abroad to study, in the USA (San Francisco), Mexico City and then France. She was married twice before she married Antoine de Saint-Exupery: first to a Mexican Army Captain, whom she met in the USA. They were divorced but apparently she told people that he had died in the Mexican Revolution. She later met and married a Guatamalan writer and diplomat called Enrique Gomez Carillo, in France. He was also a Journalist and died in 1927. Consuelo then went to live in Buenos Aires,where she lived until she met Saint-Exupery in 1931. When she eventually died, in 1979 she was buried in Paris, in Pere Lachaise Cemetery with Carillo, her second husband. Saint-Exupery had no know grave then, of course, as his body was never recovered from the wreckage of his plane after it crashed in the Mediterranean in July 1944, during the Second World War.
Consuelo's story of their love affair and ensuing turbulent marriage was published in the year 2000 as 'The Tale of the Rose'. It caused quite a sensation when it appeared. The manuscript was apparently discovered, in a trunk, in the attic, where it had lain for the twenty years since her death, by her heir, Jose Martinez-Fructuoso and his wife, Martine. Jose had worked for her for many years.
In 1998, a fisherman found a bracelet  entwined with seaweed and engraved with Consuelo's name, along with a fragment of a flying-suit, just off the French coast near Marseilles and not far from the supposed crash-site.
Two years later, the remains of a Lockheed Lightning P38, the type of plane that Saint-Exupery had been flying, were found in the same area.
In 2004 it was confirmed that the wreckage was indeed his plane, when the serial number was found, sixty years after his mysterious disappearance.
At one point Consuelo and Tonio, as she called him, lived in Morocco. They had been married at the Chateau d'Agay, home of her sister Gabrielle, on April 23rd 1931. Consuelo describes the chateau as being built 'in the shape of a prow' and 'like a ship jutting out into the sea'. The huge terrace was covered in beautiful rhododendrons and geraniums and overlooked the pure blue of the Mediterranean. What a fabulous setting for their wedding. It brings to mind the Citadel in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. I wonder if Tolkien ever visited this part of the South of France? Sadly the chateau was destroyed in 1944, by the occupying German army during the Second World War but a new residence has been built on the same site by the descendants of the Agay Family.