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After divorcing in 1974, they remarried 16 months later in a surprise ceremony on the banks of the Chobe River in Botswana. This union lasted less than a year, as the same pressures of alcoholism and tempestuous tempers that broke the first marriage resurfaced. Art Mimicking Life

The romance famously ignited in 1962 on the set of the epic film Cleopatra in Rome. Taylor, playing the titular queen, and Burton, as her Mark Antony, found their on-screen chemistry spilling into a real-life affair while both were married to others—Taylor to singer Eddie Fisher and Burton to Sybil Williams. The resulting scandal reached such a fever pitch that the issued a public statement denouncing Taylor for "erotic vagrancy". This period birthed the modern paparazzi, as photographers swarmed Rome to capture every illicit moment of the couple they labeled "Liz and Dick". A Cycle of "Furious" Devotion Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton,...

They wed in Montreal just nine days after Taylor's divorce from Fisher was finalized. This decade was defined by jet-setting opulence, including the purchase of the 69-carat Taylor-Burton Diamond for $1.1 million. After divorcing in 1974, they remarried 16 months

The couple’s relationship was characterized by a cyclical pattern of intense love and dramatic conflict, leading to two separate marriages and two divorces: Taylor, playing the titular queen, and Burton, as