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The wedding of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton — or “Lizendick,” as the press had dubbed them — was, by the measure of all that preceded it and all that would follow, a demure affair. It was two years since they had met and fallen in love on the Italian set of “Cleopatra,” provoking a media firestorm of such unprecedented scale that Federico Fellini had to invent a new term — paparazzi — to describe the photographers who pursued them day and night through the streets of Rome. That they were both married to other people was the kicker to an already potent brew of beauty, talent, wealth and fame. By March 1964, both had divorced, and the stage was set. Burton was starring as Hamlet in the Toronto tryout for what would become a
huge Broadway hit; as was her custom, Taylor was with him, attending performances nightly. On the morning of March 15, they boarded a chartered plane and flew to Montreal, where they checked into The Ritz-Carlton under the name of Smith and, in front of a half-dozen witnesses, quietly married. The bride wore a daffodil-yellow dress in the empire style, with a hyacinth and lily of the valley chignon coil. Her emerald and diamond brooch was a gift from her husband. It was Burton’s second marriage, and Taylor’s fifth. Back onstage in Toronto the following night, she joined him at the curtain call, where he repeated Ophelia’s famous line, “I say, we will have no more marriages.” But it would not be so. Their marriage survived for 10 explosive, headline-making years before finally blowing up. They briefly remarried in 1975, but divorced within a year. The night before his premature death, at the age of 59, Burton wrote Taylor a letter asking if he could “come home.” It is said she kept the letter with her for the rest of her life.
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Ritz-Carlton Magazine - Summer 2011
Ritz-Carlton Magazine - Summer 2011
Table of Contents
Contributors
Editor’s Letter
President’s Letter
Falling in Love with … Hawaii
On the Boulevards
Design
Shopping In New York City
Jewelry
Watches
Wine
Wellness
Sports
Portugal
Moscow
Fashion
Culinary
The Guide
Heritage
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