![]() Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor “were the most vivid example of a public love affair that I can think of. When asked by Time magazine some years ago to name the five greatest love affairs of the century, the Texas-born gossip columnist Liz Smith didn’t even have to think about who would occupy first place. That last letter is Taylor’s most cherished remembrance of the nearly 15 years, all told, they spent together in the whirlwind of their grand affair. He had gone to bed and sometime during the night suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. But by the time she received the letter, Burton was dead. Surrounded by his thousand treasured volumes of the Everyman’s Library-a gift from Elizabeth-he wrote a letter to Elizabeth and posted it to her home in Bel Air, in Los Angeles. ![]() ![]() ![]() With a terrible headache Richard managed to slip away and sequester himself in his attic study. His co-star, the English actor John Hurt, was staying with him and Sally for a few days. ![]() He had recently completed work on Michael Radford’s film adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984, in what would be a brief but powerful performance. Long after his fabled marriage to Elizabeth Taylor was over, and long after the yachts and the planes and the jewels were out of his life, Richard Burton and his new wife, Sally Hay Burton, settled into Richard’s house in Celigny, Switzerland. ![]()
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