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# Don't Ask How I Found This Picture of Liz and Liza.
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/dont-ask-how-i-found-this-picture-of-liz-and-liza-05-2021/
- Published: 2021-05-27T17:00:02.000Z
- Updated: 2021-08-19T18:30:51.000Z
- Description: Just be glad for its Informative Caption, and also your new favorite movie.
- Author: Jessica  
- Tags: *Flashback*, classic photos, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 08:15

First of all, I need a diagram of where everyone's hands are here and what they're doing. Is Elizabeth Taylor pointing at Liza's palm? Is this some new -- or, I suppose, old -- wrinkle in Rock, Paper, Scissors, a game I almost just italicized. I *do* feel confident that someone is currently trying to sell a massive-budget action film based on RPS, though. Dwayne Johnson will star as a geologist, i.e., the rock, and also obviously literally The Rock, who is the only witness when Elizabeth Debecki (stationery store heiress Penelope "Paper" Kensington) gets kidnapped by Scissors, a crafty con-man out for one last score before retiring to the country with his orphan niece. Scissors will be played by a hologram of Pete Postlethwaite. I can hear the trailer now: "Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson IS The Rock IN *Rock, Paper, Scissors*, opening everywhere Memorial Day 2023."

Wait, what was I even talking about? Okay, yes, this photo -- which is clearly somewhat wild and ergo fun. The date is December 8th,1971\. Informative Caption tells us, "Film star Elizabeth Taylor (centre) wearing a £15,000 pearl which belonged to Mary Tudor. She is with dancer, film star and singer Liza Minnelli (right) and Baroness Guy De Rothschild at a show given on behalf of the United and Social Jewish Fund." OF COURSE Elizabeth Taylor randomly owns a Tudorian pearl. So of course I looked this up. [Apparently, this pearl has a tendency to get lost:](https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/05/29/la-peregrina-the-pearl-owned-by-mary-i-of-england-napoleons-brother-and-elizabeth-taylor/?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) It was lost at Windsor Castle once for a while; it ALSO got lost in a sofa Buckingham Palace for a bit; eventually it was sold (for its own well-being???) and Richard Burton bought it, and [Elizabeth lost it in Vegas and eventually found it in her dog's mouth](https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210524-la-peregrina-the-worlds-most-famous-pearl?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io). This jewel IS named "La Peregrina," which means "the Wanderer," and indeed it does seem to have a habit of dashing off. [(Elizabeth also wore it in her cameo in *Anne of The Thousand Days,*](https://www.dameelizabethtaylor.com/peregrina.html?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) which is a nice shout-out to its family of origin.) She is, of course, wearing it here as a headpiece. I truly cannot express to you enough how much I love her. I'm sure the rest of her jewelry is also priceless.

Meanwhile, Liza is like "I guess I should have worn more diamonds," and Baroness de Rothschild is like "THIS IS THE MOST FUN EVENING!" Her full name is Marie-Hélène Naila Stephanie Josina de Rothschild and her [Wiki is a Jilly Cooper novel come to life, including tidbits like:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne%5Fde%5FRothschild?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)

1. "This was the first time a head of one of the Rothschild families had married a non-Jewish spouse. Guy was forced to resign from the presidency of the Jewish community in France. Marie-Hélène, being Catholic, was required to get a papal dispensation in order to annul her first marriage so that she could remarry outside the Catholic faith." A papal dispensation! I always wanted a papal dispensation! (I am not technically Catholic.)
2. She helped organize [the Battle of Versailles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FBattle%5Fof%5FVersailles%5FFashion%5FShow?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)!
3. She[ owned a home that has its own Wiki,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B4tel%5FLambert?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) which is one sign that you are VERY FANCY.

If you are interested in articles about INSANE PARTIES of yore, I direct your attention to[ this piece about her in The Rake](https://therake.com/stories/icons/through-the-looking-glass-the-rothschilds/?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io). A taste: "The main staircase was lined with men dressed as cats, feigning sleep in a range of staged poses, only to spring to life and ‘rescue’ hapless revellers who got entangled in a web-like labyrinth of black ribbons." Real Summer of '21 vibes!

###### (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)