 It was thought that after this first meeting the King sent Deslys a pearl necklace worth $70,000.Their relationship was anything but discreet (she would arrive before night at the Palácio das Necessidades and would pass through Portugal unnoticed); abroad, meanwhile, they were on the front pages of newspapers in Europe and North America, especially after he was deposed in 1910.In public interviews, usually on trips, Deslys never negated the obvious, but always refused to comment on her relationship with the deposed King.