When I was sixteen I developed a unique attraction to Dame Elizabeth Taylor. My friend's father introduced me to Taylor when he gave me a copy of the film "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" in the mid 1980's. From that moment on I was trans fixed by the romantic renaissance which could only be known to me as Dame Elizabeth Taylor. I would spend hours scanning magazines at my local news agency and began collecting articles and making up scrapbooks that became overflowing with titillating tabloid gossip. There was no internet back then, so anything printed about Dame Elizabeth Taylor was all I knew. Eventually I read an article that somehow disclosed Elizabeth's personal address. I spent the next four years writing to that address signing off on every occasion, "forever Elizabeth your biggest fan." I wrote to Elizabeth Taylor on her first visit to the Betty Ford Centre and pinned what was then my favourite picture of her in a get well card. It was the first autograph in this collection. There were many more that followed. In 1992, I was personally declared by Dame Elizabeth as her number one fan. This became the inception of our 20 year penfriend ship which lasted until her passing in 2011. Since 1992, I have amassed a most extraordinary celebrity collection, one that is quite uniquely a "one of a kind." It has been reported as a collection never to be duplicated. On many occasions I shared this collection with Dane Elizabeth and on many occasions Dame Elizabeth has shared part of her personal life with the collection. Since learning my great grandmother's middle names were Elizabeth Rosemond, that Richard Burton had purchased the famous Taylor/Burton Diamond on my birthday and that I too had dated a Richard twice, to me, Dame Elizabeth Taylor was written into my life long before I was conceived. In Dame Elizabeth Taylor shades of violet, shoes, vintage fashion, personal objects and letters from the celebrity activist and icon are displayed with loving precision and helps to embellish the life story of the Queen of Hollywood. Come with me has I navigate through the world of Elizabeth Taylor and celebrate her life and my connection with celebrity through the many facets of this 30 year collection. Dame Elizabeth herself, declared the collection as, "a very thoughtful and extensive volume, one that bought back so many memories, and made her day so very special." If you are a fan of celebrity, a fan of Dame Elizabeth Taylor or merely a fan of Hollywood memorabilia, be absorbed by the many shades of violet and take a magical journey with Elizabeth Taylor's number one fan. A connection with celebrity like no other.

Dame Elizabeth Taylor: Shades of Violet

Wayne Griffin

Capstone Media Services

Elizabeth Taylor: My Celebrity Connection

If you are a fanatic fan of Elizabeth Taylor like I am, you will know that there have been almost 70 books depicting her amazing life. One memoir of course titled Elizabeth Taylor which was written by the lady herself in 1964. Most editions are unsolicited and most rehash a story that has been told over and over again.\nElizabeth Taylor my celebrity connection, is my story and it began with a simple letter.\nI wrote to Elizabeth Taylor way back in 1988. It was the second of her two visits to the Betty Ford Centre, the fi rst being back on December 5, 1983. Through my research I had discovered that Elizabeth had checked into the facility using the pseudo, Ruth Warner. I pinned, what was at the time, my favourite picture of Elizabeth into the inside of a get well card. The picture was returned signed by Elizabeth, and this was the inception of my decades of celebrity connection.\nMany letters and cards followed and in 1992 I was declared by Miss Taylor as her number one fan and this became a wonderful penfriendship that lasted until her passing in 2011.\nOver the years I amassed an extraordinary collection of all things Elizabeth Taylor, many items sourced from around the world and even from the personal home and wardrobe of the Hollywood icon. Elizabeth Taylor herself, even gifted a few trinkets here and there as a token of her appreciation of my unwavering celebrity connection.\nIn Elizabeth Taylor my celebrity connection, shoes, vintage fashion, personal effects and letters from the celebrity activist help to embellish the life story of the Queen of Hollywood.\nCome with me as I navigate through the lifestyle that was Elizabeth Taylor and celebrate her life and my connection with celebrity.\nMiss Taylor declared this book as being, " a very thoughtful and extensive volume, one that brought back so many memories and made her day so very special."\nIf you are a fan of celebrity or a collector of Hollywood memorabilia, I hope too, that this volume brings back and keeps alive, the memories that once were, and will forever be, Dame Elizabeth Taylor.

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Dame Elizabeth Taylor: Shades of Violet

Elizabeth Taylor: My Celebrity Connection

Elizabeth Taylor: My Celebrity Connection