 Belgian novelist and artist Monique Watteau was also romantically linked with Brynner, from 1961 to 1967.His third wife (1971–1981), Jacqueline Simone Thion de la Chaume (1932–2013), a French socialite, was the widow of Philippe de Croisset (son of French playwright Francis de Croisset and a publishing executive).Brynner and Jacqueline adopted two Vietnamese children