Mounted on a ring, it was a gift from Richard Burton to Elizabeth Taylor.

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In 1925, Welsh stage and screen actor Richard Burton, twice married to and divorced from Elizabeth Taylor, born.

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The press likened their reunion to the ill-fated remarriage of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

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Elizabeth Taylor divorced Richard Burton in 1974 after ten years of marriage, only to remarry him a year later.

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"The same beach that I built my boyhood sand castles and learned to flailingly swim, it was that same beach, that one legendary day, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor descended from the heavens, like gods from Olympus, in a helicopter ... and landed on those sands, " Sheen said.

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