Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton

The definitive story of Hollywood’s most famous couple.

He was a tough-guy Welshman softened by the affections of a breathtakingly beautiful woman; she was a modern-day Cleopatra madly in love with her own mark Antony. for nearly a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were Hollywood royalty, and their fiery romance—often called the marriage of the century—was the most notorious.

Drawing upon brand-new information and interviews—and on Burton’s private， passionate, and heartbreaking letters to Taylor—furious love sheds new light on the movies,  the scandal, the fame,  the brawls， the booze， the bitter separations， and， of course， the fabled jewels. it offers an intimate glimpse into Elizabeth and Richard’s privileged world and their elite circle of friends， among them princess grace. It provides an entertaining, eye-opening look at their films， their wildly lucrative reign in Europe and in Hollywood—and the price they paid for their extravagant lives.

Shocking and unsparing in its honesty, furious love explores the very public marriage of Liz and dick as well as the private struggles of Elizabeth and Richard， including le scandal， their affair on the set of the notorious epic Cleopatra that earned them condemnation from the Vatican; Burton’s hardscrabble youth in Wales; the crippling alcoholism that nearly destroyed his career and contributed to his early death; the medical issues that plagued both him and Elizabeth; and the failed aspirations and shame that haunted him throughout their relationship. as Kashmir and schoenberger illuminate the events and choices that shaped this illustrious couple's story， they demonstrate how the legendary pair presaged america's changing attitudes toward marriage， morality， and celebrity. yet ultimately， Elizabeth and Richard shared something priceless beyond the drama: enduring love.

Richard Burton died of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 58. The night he died, he mailed a letter to Elizabeth Taylor. In it, he said that he had always been happiest with her. Could he come home again? She received the letter after returning home from his funeral. She kept it in a drawer by her bed for the rest of her life.

Addictive and entertaining， furious love is an honest yet sympathetic portrait of a man， a woman， and a passion that shocked and mesmerized the world.