Elizabeth Taylor’s extensive jewelry collection reflects a life of love and loss. The actor was engaged times, married eight times, divorced seven times, and widowed once. Her personal life is only slightly inferior to the gems that sparkle on her many rings, necklaces, bracelets and brooches.
While she had received three before, Taylor’s first was when Mike Todd proposed to the then 24 The real gobstopper jewels have emerged – with a 24 engagement of “not exactly 24 but twenty-nine and a half” carats ring.
While engagement rings are likely to be the highlight of most women’s jewelry collections, some of Taylor’s engagement rings look modest compared to her non-wedding stones — She was married to Richard Burton for five years and the couple paid $1 million for the famous Taylor-Burton diamond.
As the newly authorized biography, Kate Anderson Brower’s Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Iconic Charm , charts the roller-coaster romantic life of a screen girl, and takes a closer look at the engagement rings of famous jewelry lovers.
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