Elizabeth Taylor | Maria

Elizabeth Taylor was an actress, entrepreneur, and humanitarian. She started her acting career as a child actress in the early 1940s and went on to become one of the most famous classic Hollywood stars in the 1950s to an overwhelming degree. She was named the seventh greatest female screen legend of Classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute in 1999.

Taylor’s children appeared to be nothing more than a footnote in all of the coverage of her life. She had four children: two sons from her second marriage to Michael Wilding, a daughter from her third marriage to Mike Todd, and an adopted daughter from her marriage to Richard Burton. Taylor and her fourth husband, Eddie Fisher, began adopting a German orphan, Maria, when she was three years old, before they separated in 1964, and her fifth husband, Richard Burton, adopted her. Maria Burton Carson, now 48, is now a fashion designer and philanthropist who lives in Idaho.