Two years passed before Connery and Roquebrune would reconnect after their fling, and it wasn't exactly easy to keep the relationship going because neither lived on the same continent (via Heavy). Connery said in 2011, "In the early days it was difficult for us to see each other. She was still living in North Africa with her children. We were in separate queues coming off different flights. There was a partition and underneath I saw these feet. I immediately recognized them and tried to get through to see her but it wasn't allowed." He said he fought the crowds just so he could wait for her, and managed to get through. Roquebrune said, "I'm so glad because if I had arrived at an empty apartment that would have been it finished!"

There was one other complication: Roquebrune speaks fluent French and Spanish and understands Arabic, but at the time she didn't speak much English. But she says that even in the absence of translation apps, "Oh we had no problem communicating — body language!" (via The Sun).

They eventually married in 1975 and stayed together until Connery passed away at the age of 90.