"led a jet set lifestyle, including assembling one of the most expensive private collections of jewelry. After many years of ill health, Taylor died from congestive heart failure at the age of 79 in 2011. Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born on February 27, 1932, at Heathwood, her family's home on 8 Wildwood Road in Hampstead Garden Suburb, London. She received dual British-American citizenship at birth, as her parents, art dealer Francis Lenn Taylor (1897–1968) and retired stage actress Sara Sothern (née Sara Viola Warmbrodt, 1895–1994), were United States citizens, both originally from Arkansas City, Kansas. They moved to London in"
"Elizabeth Taylor (novelist) Elizabeth Taylor (née Coles; 3 July 1912 – 19 November 1975) was an English novelist and short-story writer. Kingsley Amis described her as ""one of the best English novelists born in this century"". Antonia Fraser called her ""one of the most underrated writers of the 20th century"", while Hilary Mantel said she was ""deft, accomplished and somewhat underrated"". Born in Reading, Berkshire, the daughter of Oliver Coles, an insurance inspector, and his wife Elsie May Fewtrell, Elizabeth was educated at The Abbey School, Reading and then worked as a governess, tutor and librarian. She married John Taylor,"
"Elizabeth Tudor. The family was descended from Ephraim Hart, a Bavarian Jew who became a prominent merchant in New York, and was reportedly partners with John Jacob Astor. The name was originally Hirz. Percyval was the grandson of the successful American businessman Frederic Tudor. He and his brother William Owen Tudor-Hart both changed their surname to Tudor-Hart in adulthood, possibly to strengthen their ties to the Tudor name. Their parents were divorced owing to their father being a ""constant and habitual frequenter of houses of ill-fame"" in Montreal. Percyval's first wife (Alexander's mother) was the daughter of his aunt Euphemia"
"or a prince! And she knows it. But being British, you see, she never complains. She's very well trained. Taylor is a gourmet French cook and she and Plummer renovated or designed houses in West Hollywood, Grasse and London before settling in Weston. Elaine Taylor (actress) Elaine Regina Taylor (born 17 October 1943) is an English actress, best known as a leading lady in comedy films of the late 1960s and early 1970s. She is married to the Canadian actor Christopher Plummer. Elaine Taylor was born in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. With the encouragement of her mother Frances, she took dancing"
"stage roles and in several television films and series, and became the first celebrity to launch a perfume brand. Taylor was also one of the first celebrities to take part in HIV/AIDS activism. She co-founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research in 1985, and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation in 1991. From the early 1990s until her death, she dedicated her time to philanthropy. She received several accolades for it, including the Presidential Citizens Medal. Throughout her career, Taylor's personal life was the subject of constant media attention. She was married eight times to seven men, endured serious illnesses, and"
"Elizabeth Tudor (1492–1495) Elizabeth Tudor (2 July 1492 – 14 September 1495) was the second daughter and fourth child of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York. Elizabeth was born on 2 July 1492 at Sheen Palace in Surrey (later rebuilt by her father as Richmond Palace, the remains of which are now part of Richmond-Upon-Thames, London). Elizabeth spent much of her short life at the royal nursery of Eltham Palace, Kent, with her older siblings Margaret (later Queen of Scotland) and Henry (the future Henry VIII of England). Elizabeth's oldest brother, Arthur, was heir to the English throne"
"Sara Sothern Sara Sothern (August 21, 1895 – September 11, 1994) was an American stage actress, and the mother of actress Elizabeth Taylor. Sothern was born Sara Viola Warmbrodt in Arkansas City, Kansas, the daughter of Elizabeth Ann (née Wilson; February 10, 1864 – February 7, 1932) and Samuel Sylvester Warmbrodt (October 8, 1861 – January 6, 1948). Her paternal grandfather, Samuel Warmbrodt, was from Switzerland. Sothern was a seasoned actress by the time she made her Broadway debut in ""The Dagger"" (1925). That was followed by ""Arabesque"" and ""Fool's Bells"" that same year. She next appeared in ""Mama Loves"
"Enid Stamp Taylor Enid Georgiana Stamp Taylor (12 June 1904 – 13 January 1946) was an English actress. Taylor first became known when she won a beauty pageant at a young age and this led to parts in musical comedies on stage, including ""The Cabaret Girl"" (1922), in which she was billed as simply ""Enid Taylor"". She progressed to film, appearing in Alfred Hitchcock's ""Easy Virtue"" (1928), ""Queen of Hearts"" (1934), and ""The Wicked Lady"" (1945). The Stamp part of her name was included as a middle name; it was her grandmother's maiden name. Taylor married Sidney Colton and they"
"99 in Palm Springs. She is interred beside her husband in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Westwood, Los Angeles. Sara Sothern Sara Sothern (August 21, 1895 – September 11, 1994) was an American stage actress, and the mother of actress Elizabeth Taylor. Sothern was born Sara Viola Warmbrodt in Arkansas City, Kansas, the daughter of Elizabeth Ann (née Wilson; February 10, 1864 – February 7, 1932) and Samuel Sylvester Warmbrodt (October 8, 1861 – January 6, 1948). Her paternal grandfather, Samuel Warmbrodt, was from Switzerland. Sothern was a seasoned actress by the time she made her Broadway debut in ""The"
"his death in 1928 until her retirement in 1961. Taylor was born at Bedminster, in Somerset (now a part of Bristol), England to John Parsons and Eliza (née Brooks), working class parents who described themselves as ""stone quarryman"" and ""washerwoman"" in the British census of 1881. Her family migrated to Australia when she was a child, arriving in Sydney in 1884 after a short stint in Queensland. Her father soon found work as a draftsman-clerk with the Parramatta Council, and also in the sewerage construction branch of the NSW Department of Public Works. According to her official although unpublished biography"
"Eleanor Thornton Eleanor Velasco Thornton (15 April 1880 – 30 December 1915) was an English actress and artist's model. Eleanor Velasco Thornton was the name adopted by Nelly Thornton, born at 18 Cottage Grove, Stockwell. Her father was Frederick Thornton, an Australian telegraph engineer; her mother was Sarah Ann Thornton. Despite stories that her mother was Spanish, possibly circulated due to her dark complexion, her mother's family were from humble origins in the City of London, and the names Eleanor and Velasco appear to be merely names she adopted when she started working in the office of a motoring magazine,"
"Mary Elizabeth Bliss Mary Elizabeth ""Betty"" Taylor Bliss Dandridge, born Mary Elizabeth Taylor (April 20, 1824 – July 25, 1909), was the youngest of the three surviving daughters of President Zachary Taylor (1849–1850) and Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor. In 1848, after her father was elected President, Mary Elizabeth married William Wallace Smith Bliss, an army officer who had served with her father. Taylor appointed William Bliss as Presidential Secretary. At the age of 22, Mary Elizabeth Bliss served as First Lady during her father's presidency, as her mother declined the social role. Betty Taylor was the youngest of five daughters"
"Clarice Taylor Clarice Taylor (September 20, 1917 – May 30, 2011) was an American stage, film and television actress. Born in Buckingham County, Virginia but raised in Harlem, New York, Taylor was best known for her recurring role on television on ""The Cosby Show"" as Dr. Heathcliff ""Cliff"" Huxtable's (Bill Cosby) mother, Anna Huxtable. She was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1986 for the role. She was also a regular on ""Nurse"", played Harriet on ""Sesame Street"", and appeared as Grady's cousin Emma on ""Sanford and Son"". Taylor started working in the theatre—with the American Negro Theatre—at a time"
"Estelle Taylor Estelle Taylor (May 20, 1894 – April 15, 1958) was an American actress, singer, model, and animal rights activist. With ""dark-brown, almost black hair and brown eyes,"" she was regarded as one of the most beautiful silent film stars of the 1920s. After her stage debut in 1919, Taylor began appearing in small roles in World and Vitagraph films. She achieved her first notable success with ""While New York Sleeps"" (1920), in which she played three different roles, including a ""vamp."" She was a contract player of Fox Film Corporation and, later, Paramount Pictures, but for the most"
"Elaine Taylor (actress) Elaine Regina Taylor (born 17 October 1943) is an English actress, best known as a leading lady in comedy films of the late 1960s and early 1970s. She is married to the Canadian actor Christopher Plummer. Elaine Taylor was born in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. With the encouragement of her mother Frances, she took dancing lessons as a child and, as early as 1950, had her hair styled by the celebrated Raymond Bessone (""Mr Teasy Weasy"") for the part of Will O'the Wisp. Taylor later studied at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts and joined the London"
"3rd quarters, Ermine, three bows stringed paleways proper (Bowes). The shield is surmounted by the imperial crown, and supported by the crowned lion of England and a lion rampant per fess Or and Gules. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was the wife of King George VI and the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. She was Queen consort of the United Kingdom and the Dominions from her husband's accession in 1936 until his death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth"
"model and actress, on 20 September 1942 and they had two children. He had changed his last name by 1936 from Goldberg to Taylor. He lived and worked in New York City until enlisting in the Navy. After the war ended, he began writing and producing for television (The Carmen Cavallero Show, The Freddy Martin Show, and several situation comedies), and maintained homes in both New York City and Los Angeles until finally settling in Los Angeles around 1956. In the late 1950s, Taylor wrote words and music for a series of novelty albums which were released on the Warner"
"Fame in the motion pictures category. Taylor was born Ida Estelle Taylor on May 20, 1894 in Wilmington, Delaware. Her father, Harry D. Taylor (born 1871), was born in Harrington, Delaware. Her mother, Ida LaBertha ""Bertha"" Barrett (November 29, 1874 – August 25, 1965), was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, and later worked as a freelance makeup artist. The Taylors had another daughter, Helen (May 19, 1898 – December 22, 1990), who also became an actress. According to the 1900 census, the family lived in a rented house at 805 Washington Street in Wilmington. In 1903, Ida LaBertha was granted a"
"Frances Margaret Taylor Frances Margaret Taylor, whose religious name was Mother Magdalen of the Sacred Heart (20 January 1832 – 9 June 1900) was an English nurse, editor and writer, nun, and Superior General and founder of the Roman Catholic religious congregation the Poor Servants of the Mother of God. Frances Taylor was born in Stoke Rochford, the youngest of ten children of Henry Taylor (1777–1842), Anglican Rector of a rural Lincolnshire parish, and his wife Louisa Maria Jones (1793–1869). Her paternal grandfather Richard Taylor (fl.1745–1829) had been rector of parishes in Wiltshire and Hampshire. On her mother's side, her"
"by her nickname, TNT. Elisabeth was born on 24 March 1982 at the family palace, Schloss Thurn und Taxis, 500-room 8th-century abbey in Regensburg. She is the middle child of Johannes, 11th Prince of Thurn and Taxis (5 June 1926 – 14 December 1990) and Gloria Princess of Thurn and Taxis (née Gräfin von Schönburg-Glauchau). She has an older sister, Maria Theresia (born 28 November 1980), and a younger brother, Albert (born 24 June 1983), who succeeded their father in 1990. The former German princely House of Thurn and Taxis is one of Germany's wealthiest and most prominent families. Her"
"Alma Taylor Alma Louise Taylor (3 January 1895 – 23 January 1974) was a British actress. Taylor was born in London. She made her first screen appearance as a child actor in the 1907 film ""His Daughter's Voice"". She went on to appear in more than 150 film roles, appearing in a number of larger-budget films such as ""Shadow of Egypt"" which was shot on location in Egypt in 1924. Taylor was one of the major British stars of the 1910s and early 1920s. In 1915 she was voted the most popular British performer by readers of ""Pictures and the"
"Mary Linley Taylor Mary Linley Taylor, (1889–1982) born Hilda Mouat Biggs, was an English stage actress, who spent most of her adult life in Korea. Marly Linley Taylor was born on September 14, 1889 in Abbey Row, Westport, Malmesbury, to Dr. Charles Edward Forbes Mouat-Biggs and Mary Louisa Tickell. She had two sisters, Betty and Una. Betty was also an actress. Taylor married Albert Wilder ""Bruce"" Taylor on June 15, 1917 at St. Thomas Cathedral in Bombay, India. Their son, Bruce Tickell Taylor (1919-), was born in Seoul and was granted honorary citizenship by then-mayor Lee Myung-bak. Mary and Albert"
"Ruth Taylor (actress) Ruth Taylor (January 13, 1905 – April 12, 1984) was an American actress in silent films and early talkies. Her son is the writer/comic/actor Buck Henry. Born Ruth Alice Taylor to Norman and Ivah (Bates) Taylor in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She was two years old when her parents moved to Portland, Oregon, where she graduated from high school. After participating in amateur dramatics as a youth, Taylor persuaded her mother to bring her to Hollywood where the teenager spent a year working as an extra. She was discovered by Mack Sennett in February 1925 when he was"
"was 20 years his junior, had two sons, Michael Howard Wilding (born 1953) and Christopher Edward Wilding (born 1955). In 1957 he had a short-lived romance with actress Marie McDonald, who was nicknamed The Body. In the 1960s he was forced to cut back on his film appearances because of illness related to his lifelong epilepsy. Wilding died in Chichester, West Sussex, as a result of head injuries suffered from a fall down a flight of stairs during an epileptic seizure. His body was cremated and the ashes were scattered. |- !colspan=""3"" style=""background:#C1D8FF;""| Husband of Elizabeth Taylor Michael Wilding (actor)"
"drew a large amount of media attention and public disapproval. According to biographer Alexander Walker, ""Whether she liked it or not ... marriage is the matrix of the myth that began surrounding Elizabeth Taylor from [when she was sixteen]"". MGM organized her to date football champion Glenn Davis in 1948, and the following year, she was briefly engaged to William Pawley, Jr., son of U.S. ambassador William D. Pawley. Film tycoon Howard Hughes also wanted to marry her, and offered to pay her parents a six-figure sum of money if she were to become his wife. Taylor declined the offer,"
"Elizabeth I of England Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor. Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, his second wife, who was executed two-and-a-half years after Elizabeth's birth. Anne's marriage to Henry VIII was annulled, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate. Her half-brother, Edward VI, ruled until his death in 1553, bequeathing the crown to"
"Natalia Livingston Natalia Livingston (born March 26, 1976) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Emily Quartermaine (for which she won an Emmy Award) and Rebecca Shaw on ABC's ""General Hospital"" and the role of Taylor Walker on the NBC soap opera ""Days of Our Lives"". Livingston was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Her father, James Livingston, is a physician, and her mother, Martha Livingston, is an artist and Spanish teacher. Livingston is of half Mexican descent, and is fluent in Spanish. She was raised in Macon, Georgia, and spent her summers in Mexico. Livingston obtained"
"York Times"" wrote that Taylor's performance as ""Regina Giddens, that malignant Southern bitch-goddess ... begins gingerly, soon gathers steam, and then explodes into a black and thunderous storm that may just knock you out of your seat"", while Dan Sullivan of the ""Los Angeles Times"" stated, ""Taylor presents a possible Regina Giddens, as seen through the persona of Elizabeth Taylor. There's some acting in it, as well as some personal display."" She appeared as evil socialite Helena Cassadine in the day-time soap opera ""General Hospital"" in November 1981. The following spring, she continued performing ""The Little Foxes"" in London's West"
"Elizabeth Cadbury Dame Elizabeth Mary Cadbury, (née Taylor; 24 June 1858 – 4 December 1951), was an English philanthropist and wife of George Cadbury, the chocolate manufacturer. Born in Peckham Rye, London, she was one of ten children of the Quaker company director and stockbroker John Taylor (d. 1894) and his wife, Mary Jane Cash (d. 1887). She grew up in an affluent family background. Her parents were active temperance crusaders, and enthusiasts for the adult education provided by mechanics' institutes. She and her sister Margaret were educated privately in Germany, and Elizabeth then attended North London Collegiate School from"
"Elizabeth Tyree Elizabeth Tyree (November 9, 1864 – August 8, 1952) was an actress in Broadway theatrical productions beginning in the mid-1890s. Her married name was Elizabeth Tyree Metcalfe. Professionally she was billed as Bess Tyree. Tyree was born in Augusta County, Virginia and came to New York City to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She appeared in over 20 productions as a member of Daniel Frohman's Lyceum Stock Company, as ""Bessie Tyree"" until the end of 1895 and as ""Elizabeth Tyree"" thereafter. Her debut came as understudy to the ailing Effie Shannon in ""The Charity Ball"""
"Eva Taylor Eva Taylor (January 22, 1895 — October 31, 1977) was an American blues singer and stage actress. Born Irene Joy Gibbons in St. Louis, Missouri, on stage from the age of three, Taylor toured New Zealand, Australia and Europe before she was in her teens. She also toured extensively with Josephine Gassman and Her Pickaninnies, a vaudeville act. She settled in New York City by 1920. There she established herself as a performer in Harlem nightspots. Within a year she wed Clarence Williams, a producer (hired by Okeh Records), publisher, and piano player. The newlyweds worked together on"
"born Luise Sophie Olga Wilhelmine Müller (1862-1928). Her father was a businessman: members of the English Hill family had been trading with Russia since the middle of the eighteenth century. Her mother was a product of the large German-speaking community in Russia. The family had fled the Bolsheviks in 1917 in fear for their lives. Elizabeth celebrated her seventeenth birthday on the ship that carried them away. They relocated to London where they found themselves suddenly all but destitute. Often known as ""Lisa"", Hill worked in several language teaching jobs before entering University College London, where she gained a First-class"
"later on September 22, 2010 at his home in Berkeley, California, from complications from hip surgery. He was 82 years old. |- !colspan=""3"" style=""background:#C1D8FF;""| Husband of Elizabeth Taylor Eddie Fisher (singer) Edwin John ""Eddie"" Fisher (August 10, 1928 – September 22, 2010) was an American singer and actor. He was the most successful pop singles artist during the first half of the 1950s, selling millions of records and hosting his own TV show. Fisher divorced his first wife, actress Debbie Reynolds, to marry Reynolds' best friend, actress Elizabeth Taylor, after Taylor's husband, film producer Mike Todd, was killed in a"