A Life in the South of France: Cannes
Sam Boyle  |  by alifeinthesouthoffrance.blogspot.com. All rights reserved. 17.07 | 5:14

My Parents in Law should have joined us but they'd exhausted themselves in Cannes alternately sun bathing and hoping to catch sight of someone famous which, of course they didn't. Just as we were about to order the door of the restaurant opened and in walked Elizabeth Taylor. Now, there are many, many lovely women on the Cote : there are beautiful buildings, sights and views but I have never seen anything before or since, natural or man made that was as beautiful as she was.

Her radiance filled the room. And there was no entourage, no hairdresser, no stylist, no flashing of cameras. Just her posed for a few seconds in the doorway followed by Roger Moore.

She would have been in her 50s then, I guess, and if I had had that beauty I would have minded terribly when I lost it. So better to be ordinary, average, wouldn't you say? Posted by angela at 08:16 My Parents in Law should have joined us but they'd exhausted themselves in Cannes alternately sun bathing and hoping to catch sight of someone famous which, of course they didn't.

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