Mountain of light: the kohinoor diamond. Martina Bexte. Diamonds are synonymous with romance, engage-ments, weddings and enduring love. Liz Taylor has always been bedazzled by diamonds and it's a well known fact that her former husband, the late Richard Burton, spared no expense to acquire a multi-faceted, pear-shaped, 70 carat beauty that Liz would later re-name the Taylor-Burton diamond.