The ultimate screen icon

ELIZABETH TAYLOR, the epitome of glamour and wealth, was the ultimate film star.

She married eight times — twice to the same man, Richard Burton — and was hailed as the most breathtakingly beautiful woman in the world.

Her life, always in the fast lane, was tempestuous and volcanic, strewn with tragedy and, in later years, dogged by ill-health. She fell in and out of love with regularity.