Bejewelled haute couture from her estate are also on auction.
This Versace beaded evening jacket is expected to bring $20,000 at auction.
Elizabeth wore this sunny yellow wedding gown by Irene Sharaff, during her first marriage to Richard Burton.
subsequently handed down through the centuries as part of the royal gems. Tis famous pearl will be auctioned this December by Christie’s New York for RM 9 million upwards. To think Richard Burton paid a mere US$37,000 in 1968 when he outbid a member of the Spanish Royal Family. La Peregrina was last owned by a Spanish aristocrat. Burton gave the Pearl to
Elizabeth on Valentine’s Day 14 February in 1969 together with a portrait of Queen Mary 1 wearing the La Peregrina Pearl! Burton had scoured the antique galleries of Europe before finding the superb painting. When they discovered that the British National Portrait Gallery did not own any original painting of Queen Mary, the couple donated the painting to the Gallery. Elizabeth Taylor married 8 times because... she once told an interviewer, she did not open her eyes for 8 days
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after she was born! When she did, the first thing she saw was her mother’s finger wearing her engagement ring and she was hooked! Not many people remember all her eight husbands except perhaps for Richard Burton whom she married twice! Her other husbands were Conrad Hilton (the Hotel heir), Michael Wilding (with whom she had the sons that now run her estate), Michael Todd ( the Film Director whose untimely death in an air crash broke her heart), Eddie Fisher (who comforted her after Todd’s death whom she stole from her best friend Debbie Reynolds), Richard Burton (with whom she had a mad love affair and then married and remarried), John Warner (a politician she later described as a mistake) and Larry Fortensky (whom many dismiss as a gold digger). She has explained, “People asked why I married so often. My parents
told me if I fell in love and wanted a love affair, I should marry. I am an old fashioned girl”. Of all the gowns in the auction, it is her bright yellow wedding dress by Irene Sharaff which probably has the greatest sentimental value as she wore it at her first wedding to Richard Burton. It is expected to fetch up to RM 250,000! Another wedding dress by Gina Fratini worn to her second wedding to Richard Burton in Botswana is also being auctioned. And the size? Any woman wanting any of the gowns should note Taylor’s petite size. Her vital statistics are 36C- 21-36 and her height of 5ft 2inches! Her jewels too come in small sizes. Likely participants in the auction who have the measurements and yes, the moneyed men to participate in the auction would be Angelina Jolie (Brad Pitt ?) or maybe Salma Hayek (her wealthy husband the Gucci heir Jean Francoise).
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