Now that was a star: Eight marriages. Three Oscars. Scandals, drama and diamonds galore, glittering from Hollywood to Rome, Acapulco and the French Riviera. Rich with photos and stories, PEOPLE"s memorial book Elizabeth Taylor takes you inside a life like no other, from her first taste of stardom at 12 in National Velvet through her wild years with Richard Burton (a romance whose scandalous beginnings, during the making of Cleopatra, earned a rebuke from the Vatican) to her later years as a legend and (very wealthy) businesswoman. Find out what it felt like to live a life so unusual that, as Taylor herself once remarked, "I can"t remember a day when I wasn"t famous."