Elizabeth Taylor’s expansive jewelry collection reflected a life filled with love and loss. The actor was engaged 10 times, married eight, divorced seven, and widowed once.
Photo: Getty ImagesFilm producer Mike Todd proposed to 24-year-old Taylor with an emerald-cut diamond ring that the actor fondly called her “ice skating rink.” As she was still married to Wilding at the time, Taylor would tell the press that it was not an engagement ring, but a friendship ring. Todd confirmed otherwise, and the couple wed in a ceremony in Mexico on February 2, 1957—just weeks after her divorce was finalized.
” The couple remained married until the actor started working onAlthough Taylor married Welsh actor Richard Burton twice, he never gave her an engagement ring. The first proposal was accompanied by an emerald Bulgari brooch that Taylor pinned to her marigold wedding dress. “Richard was so romantic that he’d use any excuse to give me a piece of jewellery,” Taylor wrote in. “He’d give me, ‘It’s a beautiful day’ presents, or, ‘Let’s go for a walk’ presents.
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