{"id":822062,"date":"2026-11-02T20:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T20:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/822062\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T20:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T20:34:09","slug":"suitcase-richard-burton-sent-to-sister-with-elizabeth-taylors-clothes-up-for-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/822062\/","title":{"rendered":"Suitcase Richard Burton sent to sister with Elizabeth Taylor’s clothes up for auction"},"content":{"rendered":"

The letter penned by Burton to Hilda suggested she give the clothes to a jumble sale or to “old colliers”.<\/p>\n

It reads: “Dear Hilda, don’t pass out but this is from me. <\/p>\n

“Chiefly it’s to tell you that Elizabeth has found a lot of clothes that she doesn’t wear anymore and wondered if you have a jumble sale or something or give them away to old colliers, or to do what you like with them.<\/p>\n

“Some of them are out of style, but she says that a needle and cotton can work wonders. <\/p>\n

“A large parcel will be arriving shortly, and all customs duties and carriage should have been paid. If not let me know and I’ll create a fuss.”<\/p>\n

Burton and Taylor met on the set of Cleopatra in Italy in 1961<\/a>, and were both married to other people but began a romantic affair.<\/p>\n

They married in 1964 and their lavish lifestyle helped to cement their position as one of the most famous couples on the planet. <\/p>\n

One of Burton’s most extravagant gifts to Taylor was the sixty-nine carat pear shaped diamond that came to be known as the Burton-Taylor diamond. Burton is reputed to have paid $1.1m for the diamond in 1969.<\/p>\n

The couple divorced 1974 before remarrying for the second time eighteen months later in 1975. They divorced again in August 1976.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The letter penned by Burton to Hilda suggested she give the clothes to a jumble sale or to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-822062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}