Elizabeth Taylor’s friend reveals which of icon’s husbands was ‘best in bed’

Elizabeth Taylor’s close friend is revealing intimate new details about the screen icon’s love life.

Fox Nation’s new docuseries “Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar,” which is executive produced by Kim Kardashianreignited interest in the legendary actress’ romantic stories.

Now, Vicky Till, who had a long friendship with Taylor and worked as the late actress’s stylist, has named which of the star’s seven husbands she described as “the best in bed.”

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Teal said People magazine Taylor’s favorite lover is Richard Burton, the late famous actor whom the actress married and divorced twice after first falling in love while filming the 1963 film “Cleopatra.”

“Absolutely. No doubt about it. Richard was her lifelong lover,” Till shared.

Elizabeth Taylor’s close friend has revealed which of the icon’s seven husbands was “the best in bed”. (Archive Photos/Getty Images)

“It was a lot of fun,” Till continued. “She took sex very lightly. She taught me a lot too; if something bad happened, you just roll your eyes and smile and don’t worry about it. She was always laughing and happy. She was a very, very happy person.”

Although the couple did not ultimately stay together, they did, Till recalls Have love for each other.

The fashion designer recalled having a conversation with Burton shortly before he died of a cerebral hemorrhage in August 1984 at the age of 58. Till told People magazine that he shared a message saying he wanted her and her then-husband, makeup artist Ron Berkley, to gift Taylor.

“Before Richard died, two days ago I think, he called me,” Thiel recalls. “I don’t think I’ll live long,” he said, “and I just wanted you and Ron to say to Elizabeth that I’ll always love her more.” Love her forever. “I miss her and love her with all my heart.”

Vicki Till said Richard Burton was Taylor’s “lover-life”. (Getty Images)

Till said she visited Taylor at her home in Bel Air shortly after Burton’s death.

“She’s taking a shower,” Till recalls. “Okay, come in the bathtub,” she said. So I go to the bathroom. She has a bathtub, and all the way there is a ledge around her bathtub. They are all diamond edged frames; Not real, but I mean, nice frames, maybe 20 frames surrounding the bathtub.

“All the pictures were of her and Richard,” she said.

During her life, Taylor was married to hotel heir Conrad “Nicky” Hilton Jr. from 1950 to 1951, actor Michael Wilding from 1952 to 1957, producer Mike Todd from 1957 until his death in 1958, singer Eddie Fisher from 1959 to 1964, and Burton from 1964 to 1974 and again in 1958. 1975 to 1975. 1976, politician John Warner from 1976 to 1982, and construction worker Larry Fortensky from 1991 to 1996.

Over the course of its three episodes, the documentary series delves into key aspects of Taylor’s life, including all of her marriages, and specifically highlights… Taylor and Burton’s whirlwind love storyWhich became one of the most famous love matches in Hollywood.

Burton and Taylor did not fall in love at first sight during their first meeting at a party, which occurred a decade before they co-starred in “Cleopatra.” Taylor was aware of Burton’s reputation as a womanizer and stayed away from the “1984” star.

The Kim Kardashian-produced three-part series, “Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar,” begins airing exclusively on Fox Nation on October 6, 2025. (Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images; Todd O’Young/NBC via Getty Images)

In the documentary series, Joan Collins, Burton’s co-star in the 1957 film Sea Wife, recalled that the actor was known for “sleeping with all his leading ladies.”

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“All the actors made passes for the actresses,” Collins recalls. “They considered it their divine right.”

She continued: “So when he passed me by and I turned him down, he said, ‘Oh, you can’t do that. “You broke my own record.”

However, sparks flew between Burton and Taylor while they were there Filming of the movie “Cleopatra” She played the titular Egyptian queen, and he portrayed Mark Antony, the Roman general and Cleopatra’s lover.

In archival footage featured in the documentary, Burton recalled meeting Taylor on the set of the film.

“There was this strange creature that looked like a sphinx,” he said. “And I thought they were perhaps the most unapproachable, inaccessible, and most unique creatures I had ever seen. So I set out to attract their attention.”

In a voiceover from archival footage, Taylor recalled the moment she fell in love with Burton.

“On the first day of filming, he was drunk and very weak, and his hands were shaking,” she recalled. “He asked me to put the coffee cup to his lips, and I went.”

Taylor and Burton fell in love while filming “Cleopatra.” (Getty Images)

The pair started out tense and received a lot of media coverage Extramarital affair. At the time, Fisher and Burton were married to actress Sybil Burton, with whom he had two daughters, Kate and Jessica.

Taylor’s son, Christopher Wilding, who gave the first ever on-camera interview for the docu-series, recalls that he thought his mother was unhappy in her marriage to Fisher at the time.

“It wasn’t normal, and at the time her attitude was: ‘Fuck it,'” he said. “I’ll do it my way, and if you don’t like it, that’s too bad.”

“It just happened with Richard,” said Jurjane Strom, Taylor’s assistant and friend.

“It happened in an emotional way,” she added. “It was galvanic, explosive and undeniable.”

Collins suggested that Fisher, who had previously been in a relationship with Taylor when he was married to Debbie Reynolds, was aware of his wife’s infidelity with Burton.

Taylor sits on Eddie Fisher’s lap on the set of “Cleopatra” as Burton looks on. Taylor will soon leave Fisher and move to Burton. (Getty Images)

“Clearly there was something going on with Richard and Elizabeth, and Eddie knew about it,” she said.

“I remember it was a big dinner. Burton was there, and it was very uncomfortable. Eddie was trying to make up for it with a Cartier bracelet, and she kind of tossed it aside. I said, ‘I’ll have it,'” she recalls, laughing.

“Everyone was horrified because it was so obvious,” Collins added. “Eddie Fisher, he looked so sad and defeated – a defeated man.”

The media covered Taylor and Burton’s case extensively, and the scandal caught their attention Vaticanwhich condemned the co-stars and publicly denounced their “sexy homelessness.”

In the docuseries, Christopher recalled how media coverage of his mother’s scandalous romance affected him. Taylor shares Christopher and son Michael with her second husband, Michael Wilding.

“It was a big obstacle,” he said. “When I went to boarding school, I would learn things about what they did by reading about it in the newspaper. All the other kids knew about these stories. I would hear, you know, unpleasant jeers. ‘Well, your mother likes to sleep with a lot of guys or something.’

He continued, “It was embarrassing. As she got older, she regretted it. I felt like she wasn’t a great mother. I think she was a good mother. It wasn’t easy to do.”

The couple is photographed on their wedding day in 1964. (Getty Images)

In her interview, Kardashian talked about how much influence parents’ fame has on their children.

“You don’t plan this life for your kids,” she said. “You’re an adult, and you can handle it. You don’t know which of your kids can really handle it, so I think it’s very hard on the family. I think when people open themselves up to that scrutiny. It’s really hard just on your soul.”

Both in 1964 Taylor and Burton divorced Their spouses and married each other. The two became one of Tinseltown’s most successful couples, starring in 11 films together, including “The VIPs,” “The Sandpiper,” “Anne of the Thousand Days,” “The Taming of the Shrew,” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

During their first marriage, the two, nicknamed “Liz and Dick” by the media, adopted their daughter, Maria. In addition to Mariah, Christopher and Michael, Taylor was also a mother to daughter Lisa, whom she shared with her third husband, Mike Todd.

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The two were married and divorced twice. (Getty Images)

Taylor and Burton’s marriage was known for being emotional and full of drama. The two first separated in June 1974, but soon reconciled. In October 1975, they tied the knot again during a secret ceremony in Botswana.

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“We exchanged rings, unfathomable glances, and got married again, where we belonged. We always belonged,” Taylor wrote in her memoir, according to Kate Andersen Brewer, who wrote a 2022 biography titled “Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Charm of an Icon.”

Three weeks before his death, Burton said he and Taylor had “never broken up” and “will never break up.” (API/Gammi/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

However, the couple separated again less than 10 months later in July 1976. Taylor said: “I love Richard with every fiber of my soul but we can’t be together. We’re too destructive to each other.”

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Three weeks before his death, Burton told his brother Graham: “Elizabeth and I have never separated. We never will.”

Burton wrote a final letter to Taylor days before his death. He described how he was at his happiest with her. Burton also wondered if they might have another chance together. Taylor kept the letter in a bedside drawer until her death at age 79 in March 2011.

“Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar” is now streaming on Fox Nation.