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Article: Living with the world's greatest love affair; When Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor fell in love, it wasn't just their own lives that were affected, as Richard's daughter Kate Burton reveals.(Features)
- Article from:
- Sunday Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 28, 2002
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Byline: Deborah L. Wallace and Rosemarie Colombraro
Kate Burton's world was turned upside down when her father fell in love with his co-star on the set of the 1963 movie Cleopatra. Her father was, of course, screen-legend Richard Burton. And his mistress, Elizabeth Taylor. Taylor was already on her fourth marriage and Richard was married to Kate's mother, Sybil Williams. But that didn't stop the tempestuous affair that would eventually lead to Taylor and Burton leaving their spouses and marrying in March 1964. The film's director, Joseph Mankiewicz, said that the ...