The family of actor Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor with whom he eventually married twice, today offered a space in his family vault in the south of Wales (United Kingdom), for the actress, died yesterday at age 79, is buried with her former husband.
Relatives of Burton, who died 26 years ago, said they would be "honor" to fulfill the plan expressed by both players stand while they were married together in the cemetery of Pontrhydyfen, the small Welsh village where Burton was born, according to the BBC.
An actor's niece, Sian Owen, issued the wish of the family to fulfill the original plan of the two stars of Hollywood, which would move to Wales, the remains of Burton, because it was buried in 1984 in Switzerland, where he lived then with his late wife, Sally.
Taylor and Burton were married first in 1964 and divorced in 1976 only to renew their marriage a second marriage that lasted just five months.
After the death of actor, Taylor visited the Burton family in Pontrhydyfen, who asked not to attend the funeral in Switzerland to avoid the turmoil that had caused his journalistic presence.
"Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton will always be together in the public imagination, and I know she had expressed her desire to be buried next to him, " Burton said a nephew, Guy Masterson.
Actor Robert Hardy, a friend of the couple, said: "His love was explosive, tremendous, and lasted throughout the life of both. " Burton, who became one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood, he managed during his career seven Oscar nominations between 1950 and 1970, but never win.
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