If ever there was an icon to whom this coquette would always aspire, then surely Liz Taylor would be it.

A stage goddess with talent and beauty to match a playful and razor sharp wit, she invariably got what she wanted and dismissively stuck two elegant, diamond encrusted fingers up at the establishment who tut-tutted her excess. Scandal and intrigue were never far away and always threatened to over shadow her stage performances which yielded her two Oscars and several other nominations for best actress.

Eight marriages and the on-off international soap opera of two of those marriages to Richard Burton, say as much about her compulsive personality as her bewitching effect on men. But whatever way you look at it, that girl had style...

For those interested, the London March, led by Annie Lennox, will leave Borough Market at 11am on Tuesday 8 March, walking along the south side of the river to Millennium Bridge, crossing the Thames to the North side then continuing west along the river walk way past Victoria Embankment Gardens, then crossing back along Hungerford Bridge to the South side of the river and finishing at the Royal Festival Hall for speeches.

A life in quotes:

"Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells."

"My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked."

"I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife."

"I had a hollow leg. I could drink everyone under the table and not get drunk. My capacity was terrifying."

"Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses."

"If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down."

"Richard came on the set and sidled over to me and said: 'Has anybody ever told you that you're a very pretty girl?' I thought, Oy gevalt, the great lover, the great wit, the great Welsh intellectual, and he comes out with a corny line like that! But then I noticed his hands were shaking as if he had Saturday night palsy. He had the worst hangover I'd ever seen. And he was obviously terrified of me. I just took pity on him. I realised he really was human. That was the beginning of our affair."

"If not to make the world better, what is money for?"

"When you're fat, the world is divided into two groups - people who bug you and people who leave you alone. The funny thing is, supporters and saboteurs exist in either camp."

"I, along with the critics, have never taken myself very seriously."

"I think I'm finally growing up - and about time." (aged 53)