Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were the most famous couple in the world after meeting on the set of Holywood epic Cleopatra and embarking on an illicit affair that captured the world's imagination.
Liz was still married to husband number four, Eddie Fisher, when she began her passionate romance with co-star Burton, who was still married to first wife Sybil Williams.
All eyes were on the sultry star, who had become the first woman in the world to earn $1million to play the lusty Egyptian queen opposite Burton as Mark Antony.
Their romance is believed to have started while they were filming the movie in Italy in 1962 when she was 26 and Welsh rogue Burton was 36.
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