[1] The daughter of Count Charles de Romrée, Belgian ambassador, and Marie-Madeleine Crombez, she was born in Bern.
In 1938, she married André Nève de Mévergnies; he died later that same year in a car accident.
She served as press attaché at the Belgian consulate in South Africa.
While there, she began to write La Taverne des sept mers.
Her last novel Petites filles d'autrefois was awarded the Prix littéraire de la Communauté française in 1984.