Elizabeth Taylor wearing the 69.42 carat pear-shaped diamond, a gift from Richard Burton, which came to be known as the Taylor-Burton diamond. It was cut from a rough stone weighing 240.80 carats found in the Premier Mine in 1966 and it is a D-color flawless stone. Elizabeth Taylor is wearing the Taylor-Burton Diamond in a necklace by Cartier featuring a number of smaller pear-shaped diamonds.