A rare love letter by Elizabeth Taylor to her unfaithful husband Richard Burton has emerged to show how she desperately fought to save their doomed marriage right to the end.
The note, thought to be the only Taylor-Burton love letter ever to become available for public sale, was written by the late actress days before the pair separated and three months before they divorced for the first time.
The diva penned the touching note to mark their 10th wedding anniversary in 1974, just weeks before they split, and three months before their first divorce.
In the letter, Taylor pledges her love to her unfaithful husband, who had numerous affairs in the 10 years of marriage, writing: “My darling (my still) My husband… I wish I could tell you of my love for you, of my fear, my delight, my pure animal pleasure of you — (with you) — my jealousy, my pride, my anger at you, at times.
“Most of all my love for you, and whatever love you can dole out to me — I wish I could write about it but I can’t… Anyway I lust thee, Your (still) Wife,” the letter further reads.
The note is expected to be sold for at least $59,500 (35,000£) in an online auction on the Paul Fraser Collectibles website.
