I'm not sure if you caught it, but there was a fantastic documentary on channel four this week about last year's auction of Elizabeth Taylor's spectacular jewelry collection. What was perhaps most amazing about her jewelry is that she didn't buy these things because she thought they were beautiful, they all marked a particular time or event in her life. Gifts from husbands, lovers and friends, souveniers from trips with her family, celebrations of movies she made or the births of her children.
Elizabeth Taylor had an extraordinary life with its fair share of blessings. However she also had more than her share of heartache, something which is often glossed over in favour of talking about her eight marriages or scandalous love affairs. But at the heart of it all Elizabeth was an incredibly strong and generous person, and someone that I've admired for a long time. If you haven't read it, her book My Love Affair With Jewelry, is well worth a read, telling her story in her own words. We'll never again see a star like Elizabeth Taylor, a woman who demanded people's admiration just as surely as any diamond ever could.
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