Attended by Cartier jewellers Liz Taylor tries on a beautiful diamond necklace with matching earrings she spotted while window-shopping in Monte Carlo with her third husband Mike Todd. At $500,000, the necklace was beyond Todd’s budget, but the earrings were her consolation prize. Monte Carlo 1958. - Photo by Edward Quinn

Attended by Cartier jewellers Liz Taylor tries on a beautiful diamond necklace with matching earrings she spotted while window-shopping in Monte Carlo with her third husband Mike Todd. At $500,000, the necklace was beyond Todd’s budget, but the earrings were her consolation prize. Monte Carlo 1958.

Elizabeth Taylor and her third husband, Mike Todd, are captured in conversation outside the Hôtel de Paris in Monte Carlo, 1958. During this trip, Taylor spotted a beautiful diamond necklace and matching earrings from Cartier while window-shopping. The necklace, at $500,000, was beyond Todd’s budget, but the earrings became her consolation prize. A doorman observes the couple from the hotel steps as Taylor, a light coat draped over her shoulders, smiles at her husband.


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