Before becoming the bride of eight times, Elizabeth Taylor, 17 years old at that time, was engaged to William Pawley, 22, son of former ambassador to Brazil. Their love story took almost a year, during which they have sent each other dozens of letters.
“I’ve never known such love – it’s perfect, complete and mature. I have never loved anyone, not even one third of what I love you and I do not think that will ever happen (actually, I think that I will not love anyone else – period), “wrote Taylor to William, on May 6, 1949.
Elizabeth Taylor, who died at the age of 75 last week, was engaged to Pawley in 1949, before her first marriage. She sent him over 60 letters from March to October, letters that will be auctioned this year in May. The letters that are still unpublished – some written in purple ink on pink paper – show Liz’s transition from adolescence to adulthood. In most epistles, she assures her fiance, Pawley, that he is her only love.
“My heart hurts and makes me cry when I think of you. How much I want to be with you and look in your beautiful blue eyes, kiss your sweet lips to keep me in your strong arms, to bring me close to you … I want to love you forever, even after 75 years of marriage and as we have dozens of great-great grandchildren”, the actress wrote on March 28, 1949.
Shortly thereafter, Liz was formally meeting the American football player Glenn Davis at the request of her mother and producers to help her image, but she still craved her first love. “I know deep down this is not the end of our relationship, because we do have so much love”, the actress wrote to William. Eight months later, Liz is married to another man, a hotel owner, Conrad Nicholson “Nicky” Hilton.