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Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Giant in 1955.

Lost tapes reveal Elizabeth Taylor’s struggle with fame and shame

Long-lost audio interviews with the double Oscar winner reveal her life-long struggle with fame, and the cause that became her crowning glory.

  • Karl Quinn
Long-time prime minister Bob Hawke once held a record for beer drinking while he was at university at Oxford.

Seventy years on, Oxford pub pays tribute to Bob Hawke’s legendary skol

Australia’s longest-serving Labor prime minister was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford between 1953 and 1956. In 1954, he drank a yard of ale.

  • Rob Harris
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Cleopatra

The astonishing hedonism, excess and love of two great actors

The lives of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were devoted at times to each other but always to indulgence.

  • Tom Ryan
Elvis and Priscilla

Priscilla, Cleopatra and their beaus: the best real-life couples in film

We’re all voyeurs at heart, so is that why so many people are fascinated by the love lives of these historical figures?

  • Kerrie O'Brien
Kat Stewart and David Whiteley are putting their relationship to the test by playing the tempestuous couple at the centre of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

It started with a kiss on stage, now this real-life couple is fighting it out

‘It’s really shocking’: Why Kat Stewart and David Whiteley took on the classic domestic drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

  • John Bailey
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The city of Palma, on the Spanish island Mallorca, is undergoing a green revolution off the back of investment in green hydrogen.

The Mediterranean island for the rich and famous at the forefront of the climate revolution

From Jules Verne to Christopher Skase, Rafael Nadal’s native Mallorca has long had a powerful pull on the rich and famous. Now its natural assets of sun and sea are fuelling power itself.

  • Rob Harris
Liz Taylor & Larry Fortensky. 1991 file picture

From the Archives, 1991: Roses, swans and a silver sock as Liz does it again

It was eighth-time lucky for a tearful Elizabeth Taylor when she and construction worker Larry Fortensky wed at Michael Jackson’s ranch, thirty years ago.

  • Staff reporter, Reuter and The New York Times
Hamish Sharma,Head of Important Jewels from Leonard Joel, Sydney. Hamish with 25ct diamond, the largest ever auctioned in Australia It is due to go under the hammer April 20 with an asking price in excess of $1M. SMH / Photo by Peter Braig . 15 April 2021

Australia’s biggest diamond auction is under way, but is bigger always better?

The biggest stone to go under the hammer in Australia is expected to fetch more than $1 million this week. But what about “regular” folk –what should we look for?

  • Melissa Singer
Prince Harry and Meghan Duchess of Sussex continue the tradition of famous couples with matching Cartier bracelets.

Beyond the realm of royalty: what makes a piece of jewellery a modern icon?

The world’s most famous bracelet - which requires a special screwdriver to unlock it - is helping drive a post-COVID jewellery recovery.

  • Melissa Singer

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