Elizabeth Taylor’s expansive jewellery assortment mirrored a life crammed with love and loss. The actor was engaged 10 occasions, married eight, divorced seven, and widowed as soon as. Her private life was solely marginally much less colourful than the valuable stones that shone from her many rings, necklaces, bracelets, and brooches. 

Although she had been offered with three earlier than it, Taylor’s first actual gobstopper jewel got here when Mike Todd proposed to the then 24-year-old with a “not fairly 30 however twenty-nine-and-a-half” carat engagement ring in 1956.  

Whereas for most ladies, their engagement ring is probably going the showpiece of their jewellery assortment, a few of Taylor’s had been modest in comparison with her non-matrimonial rocks—she had been married to Richard Burton for 5 years when the couple purchased the well-known $1 million stone that was christened the Taylor-Burton diamond. 

As a brand new approved biography, Kate Andersen Brower’s Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon, charts the display siren’s rollercoaster romantic life, take a more in-depth take a look at the well-known jewellery lover’s engagement rings.