Liz Taylor and Richard Burton are one of the great couples of Hollywood’s golden age, a tormented love and yearning, crowned by two marriages and two divorces. Liz Taylor and Richard Burton were married for the first time on March 15th, 1964, and the couple was one of the favorite victims of the tabloid press when they divorced on June 26th, 1974 at Liz’s request. The two ended up marrying again in Botswana on October 10th, 1975, but even this time something did not work out, and the final divorce occurred on August 1st, 1976.