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Richard Burton bought the most famous Asscher-cut diamond in history - the Krupp diamond - for Elizabeth Taylor in 1968, allegedly as a prize for beating him at table tennis.

Elizabeth Taylor

Dame Elizabeth Taylor was a British-American actress, known for her violet eyes and numerous marriages. She starred in numerous successful films throughout the 1940s, '50s and '60s, including the 1963 hit Cleopatra, for which she is perhaps best known. Before she died in 2011, she had been married eight times and was a renowned jewellery collector.

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