The late Elizabeth Taylor, a legend to the very end, was laid to rest yesterday just one day after she passed away at the age of 79. Per instructions left by Taylor herself, her body did not arrive at yesterday’s funeral services until 15 minutes after the start time … so that she could be [...]
The late Elizabeth Taylor, a legend to the very end, was laid to rest yesterday just one day after she passed away at the age of 79. Per instructions left by Taylor herself, her body did not arrive at yesterday’s funeral services until 15 minutes after the start time … so that she could be fashionably late to her own funeral. How fabulous is she?
She was a Hollywood original to the end. Elizabeth Taylor was laid to rest Thursday at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Calif., in a small, private funeral attended by friends and family that began 15 minutes after schedule – under instructions she left. “She even wanted to be late for her own funeral,” a family rep said in a statement. Taylor’s casket was closed and draped with gardenias, violets, and lily of the valley. She was interred in The Great Mausoleum, the same resting place for her longtime friend Michael Jackson. The one-hour, multi-denominational service officiated by Rabbi Jerry Cutler included a reading by actor Colin Farrell, a friend of Taylor’s, of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem “The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo.” Taylor’s son Michael Wilding, her daughter Liza and her grandson Tarquin Wilding also read selections, and her grandson Rhys Tivey performed a trumpet solo of “Amazing Grace.” The acting legend died Wednesday at the age of 79.
There will never be another star like Elizabeth Taylor. The woman was a queen to the very end. It’s insane to me how quickly we lost her … and now she has been laid to rest. Heaven is very lucky to have her … and we surely will miss her dearly. Rest well, Dame Elizabeth. We will love and miss you always.
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