A dual citizen of the UK and the U.S., Taylor was born a British subject through her birth on British soil and an American citizen through her parents.
Elizabeth Taylor is the second child of Francis Lenn Taylor (1897-1968) and Sara Viola Warmbrodt (1895-1994), who were Americans residing in England. Her father was an art dealer and her mother a former actress whose stage name was 'Sara Sothern'. Sothern retired from the stage when she and Francis Taylor married in 1926 in New York City.
Elizabeth Taylor's fifth and sixth husband was Richard Burton, CBE, a Welsh actor (at one time the highest-paid actor in Hollywood).
Elizabeth Taylor's first husband was Conrad Nicholson "Nicky" Hilton, Jr., an American socialite, hotel heir, businessman, and TWA director. He was one of the sons of Conrad Hilton (founder of Hilton Hotels).
Elizabeth Taylor's fourth husband was Edwin Jack "Eddie" Fisher, an American singer and entertainer, who was one of the world's most famous and successful singers in the 1950s, selling millions of records and having his own TV show. His divorce from his first wife, Debbie Reynolds, to marry his best friend's widow, Elizabeth Taylor, garnered scandalously unwelcome publicity at the time.
Elizabeth Taylor's seventh husband was John William Warner, KBE, an American Republican politician who served as Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974 and as a five-term United States Senator from Virginia from January 2, 1979, to January 3, 2009. He did not seek reelection in 2008 and has rejoined the law firm of Hogan & Hartson, where he worked before joining the Department of Defense.
Elizabeth Taylor's third husband was Michael Todd, an American theatre and film producer, best known for his 1956 production of Around the World in Eighty Days, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture.