Style icon Elizabeth Taylor has died at her home in California after many years of illness, She was 79.
The British-born icon began her amazing career aged nine and became the diamond-draped epitome of Hollywood glamour.
The world was enthralled by her life including her eight marriages and natural talent for acting. After facing years of battling illness, Taylor continued to show her face and keep a brave face for her fans.
In 1991 Elizabeth Taylor married Larry Fortensky in a ceremony that took place at Michael Jackson's Neverland. The pair had become great friends and even up to his dying day they remained very close.
Liz said of her marriages, as posted on The Sun website : "I was brought up by a very moral and puritanical family and I just could not adjust to having affairs. It meant that when I thought I was in love with somebody it more or less led to the altar."
The world was enthralled by her life including her eight marriages and natural talent for acting. After facing years of battling illness, Taylor continued to show her face and keep a brave face for her fans.
In 1991 Elizabeth Taylor married Larry Fortensky in a ceremony that took place at Michael Jackson's Neverland. The pair had become great friends and even up to his dying day they remained very close.
One of Elizabeth Taylor's last interviews: on Michael Jackson's death
Liz said of her marriages, as posted on The Sun website : "I was brought up by a very moral and puritanical family and I just could not adjust to having affairs. It meant that when I thought I was in love with somebody it more or less led to the altar."
Throughout her career Taylor made more than 50 films. Her last film in 1994 was The Flintstones in which she played Wilma's mum. In 2000 she was made a Dame at Buckingham Palace. She quipped: "I've always been a broad, now I'm a Dame... "
The following year Bill Clinton awarded her the Presidential Citizens' Medal - the second-highest civilian honour in the US.
After an interview with The Sun, on looking on her life, she said: "Everything was handed to me - looks, fame, wealth, honours, love.
"But I have paid for that luck with disasters, the deaths of so many good friends, terrible illnesses, destructive addictions, broken marriages.
"All things considered, I'm damned lucky to be alive."
In her final interview, in a fashion magazine last month, Liz said: "I never planned to acquire a lot of jewels or a lot of husbands.
"For me, life happened, just as it does for anyone else. I have been supremely lucky in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things."
In the last years of her life Elizabeth stayed clear of the spotlight and spent most of her time in her house in Bel Air, California. However, after battling with a brain tumour and skin cancer as well as in the last 25 years undergoing more than 100 operations, the star was laid to rest.
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