Perhaps the most famous piece of jewelry Richard ever gifted Elizabeth, the 69.42-carat "Taylor-Burton Diamond" was so ...

It sold on 30 January at the Woolley & Wallis auction house, in Sailsbury, southern England.

Bettmann / Contributor / Getty ImagesThe 1950s were known as a golden age in fashion and glamour — and the jewelry was no ...

Elizabeth Taylor was notorious for receiving ... including the pear-shaped 69-carat diamond that came to be called the Burton-Taylor Diamond. She later auctioned it off to fund a hospital in ...

Elizabeth Taylor at the 1970 Academy Awards. She is wearing the Taylor-Burton diamond on a necklace. (Photo by Screen Archives/Getty Images) Of course, think of Miss Taylor, and think of the ...

Elizabeth Taylor was a British-American actress. She made her film debut when she was nine years old in There's One Born Every Minute (1942). Taylor later starred in Cleopatra (1963) and earned a ...