One of the most beautiful and famous women in cinema, Lizzie is often identified as Cleopatra. On a personal level, Elizabeth Taylor has often been talked about for her stories of marriages and divorces, one of which was with Richard Burton. Burton and Taylor married and divorced twice, thus creating the idea that her true love was precisely Richard Burton. Below, two of the short, but emotionally charged letters that the pair exchanged at critical moments: Elizabeth Taylor to Burton:
“My (still) beloved husband,
How I wish I could tell you the love I feel for you, the fear, the fragile, animalistic desire – (for you) – my jealousy, my pride, my anger towards you sometimes. All my love for you, and the love you reveal to me – I wish I could write about it all, but I can’t. All I can do is stew inside, and hope you understand how I really feel.
(Still) Your wife.
PS Oh, love… don’t ever let us take each other for granted again!
PPS 10 years, that’s not a little!
Meanwhile, Richard Burton writes about Liz:
“My (still) beloved wife,
“My blind eyes are waiting desperately for your sight. You, of course, do not understand how beautiful you were and how special a place you have secured in my soul.”
The pain they feel for each other is clearly visible, even though they are getting divorced for the second time. Their passion resembles love, seemingly platonic, where the parties, although they love each other, do not stay together for other external reasons. But it was not like that, since they were the two of them who decided, both for marriages and divorces, although it was obvious that… they felt for each other, no matter how their lives turned out.