Dame Elizabeth Taylor is known around the world not only for her films, Cleopatra, Come Home Lassie and Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? To name a few, but also for many other things.
She was a great friend and confidant.
It was through one of these friendships she started her first charity. Her friend Rock Hudson, whom she had starred with in Giant, contracted AIDs and she was so outraged at the behaviour of people reactions to the disease that she vowed to help him and others like him to deal with it. She devoted a lot of her spare time to the charity she named the Elizabeth Taylor AID's Foundation. It was for her work with this charity that she was given the title Dame by the Queen.
It was to this charity that the all proceeds of the auction went to.
Of course another thing she was famous for was her eight marriages, two of which where to Richard Burton.
Their wedding rings where part of the auction and they where estimated to sell for $6-8000. Fifteen minutes of bidding later they fat exceeded there estimate with the rings selling for £1,022,500 and ending the jewellery section of the auction.
The rings were gold and diamond bands, used for both their marriages in 1964 and 1975.
The couple met on the set of Cleopatra in 1961. Both Taylor and Burton were married at the time and started an affair. Before this the film companies had largely hushed up any media speculation of affairs on set between actors but this one was different and caused a massive scandal in the day. The film finished in June 1962 and the pair where seen holidaying in Italy.
Richard Burton gave her a gift of an emerald and diamond necklace designed so it could be detached and worn as a brooch also.
When Elizabeth's divorce came through she married Richard.
The first time they married was 15th March 1964 in the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Montreal, Canada. Nine people attended, including Jim Benton as Burtons best man.
Elizabeth wore an empire style chiffon gown in daffodil yellow with the emerald and diamond brooch. In her hair she wore lily of the valley and hyacinth.
For 10 years the couple where the golden couple of Hollywood. It was during this time that Burton brought the Taylor- Burton Diamond which was originally a ring but reworked by Cartier into a necklace. He also brought her famous Krupp Diamond ring which we talked about last week (read here)
The first marriage eventually ended in Saarinen, Switzerland. They divorced 26th June 1974, but only 16 months later wedding bells where ringing again for the couple.
They re married in Africa on the 10th October 1975, choosing to marry in secret at Chobe lodge Kasane, Botswana.
Unfortunately it didn't last and on the 29th July 1976 they divorced again.
Both Taylor and Burton married other people after their second divorce and never got back together, but their union remains one of the great couple of this legendary time in Hollywood.
Richard Burton died in August 1984 aged 58.
Elizabeth Taylor died in Los Angeles, 23 March 2011 aged 79 of congestive heart failure.
I wish I could have met this brilliant woman I think she seemed like a strong, loyal lady with a fabulous eye for jewellery, (even if most of her jewellery was gifts from admirers.)
I could have wrote far more then just 3 posts on the jewellery of Elizabeth Taylor but I limited myself to just three. If you would like to know more about her jewellery or indeed the woman herself she has a book she wrote about her passion for jewellery. Click here for more information.
If you have enjoyed this series of posts don't forget to share them with your friends by clicking on the social media links below
She was a great friend and confidant.
It was through one of these friendships she started her first charity. Her friend Rock Hudson, whom she had starred with in Giant, contracted AIDs and she was so outraged at the behaviour of people reactions to the disease that she vowed to help him and others like him to deal with it. She devoted a lot of her spare time to the charity she named the Elizabeth Taylor AID's Foundation. It was for her work with this charity that she was given the title Dame by the Queen.
It was to this charity that the all proceeds of the auction went to.
Of course another thing she was famous for was her eight marriages, two of which where to Richard Burton.
Their wedding rings where part of the auction and they where estimated to sell for $6-8000. Fifteen minutes of bidding later they fat exceeded there estimate with the rings selling for £1,022,500 and ending the jewellery section of the auction.
The rings were gold and diamond bands, used for both their marriages in 1964 and 1975.
The couple met on the set of Cleopatra in 1961. Both Taylor and Burton were married at the time and started an affair. Before this the film companies had largely hushed up any media speculation of affairs on set between actors but this one was different and caused a massive scandal in the day. The film finished in June 1962 and the pair where seen holidaying in Italy.
When Elizabeth's divorce came through she married Richard.
The first time they married was 15th March 1964 in the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Montreal, Canada. Nine people attended, including Jim Benton as Burtons best man.
Elizabeth wore an empire style chiffon gown in daffodil yellow with the emerald and diamond brooch. In her hair she wore lily of the valley and hyacinth.
For 10 years the couple where the golden couple of Hollywood. It was during this time that Burton brought the Taylor- Burton Diamond which was originally a ring but reworked by Cartier into a necklace. He also brought her famous Krupp Diamond ring which we talked about last week (read here)
The first marriage eventually ended in Saarinen, Switzerland. They divorced 26th June 1974, but only 16 months later wedding bells where ringing again for the couple.
They re married in Africa on the 10th October 1975, choosing to marry in secret at Chobe lodge Kasane, Botswana.
Unfortunately it didn't last and on the 29th July 1976 they divorced again.
Both Taylor and Burton married other people after their second divorce and never got back together, but their union remains one of the great couple of this legendary time in Hollywood.
Richard Burton died in August 1984 aged 58.
Elizabeth Taylor died in Los Angeles, 23 March 2011 aged 79 of congestive heart failure.
I wish I could have met this brilliant woman I think she seemed like a strong, loyal lady with a fabulous eye for jewellery, (even if most of her jewellery was gifts from admirers.)
I could have wrote far more then just 3 posts on the jewellery of Elizabeth Taylor but I limited myself to just three. If you would like to know more about her jewellery or indeed the woman herself she has a book she wrote about her passion for jewellery. Click here for more information.
If you have enjoyed this series of posts don't forget to share them with your friends by clicking on the social media links below
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