It turned out that Taylor had made her long-overdue grand entrance, and MGM royalty trumped actual royalty in terms of TV ratings—a fact Elizabeth II found deeply amusing. Now, with the star on everybody’s lips yet again thanks to one Taylor Swift—“I’d cry my eyes violet / Elizabeth Taylor / Tell me for real / Do you think it’s forever?” she sings in “Elizabeth Taylor,” the second track on her latest album, The Life of a Showgirl—we take a look back at the early years of the Elizabeth Taylor, one of Hollywood’s greatest legends.