Shining Through Scandal: The Incredible Life Of Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor’s Second Marriage Was To Michael Wilding

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Elizabeth Taylor met British actor Michael Wilding while filming Conspirator. They began a relationship after Taylor was on location in London to film the historical film Ivanhoe. Wilding was 20 years Taylor’s senior, but they pursued the relationship for different reasons. While Wilding thought that the relationship would benefit his career in Hollywood, Taylor thought their incredible age gap offered the same calm and security of a friendship. The two actors married in February 1952 and eventually went on to have two sons together. They began to drift apart over the course of their marriage, which ended in divorce in 1957.