Richard Burton's tumultuous marriages to Liz Taylor were blighted by alcoholic rages... So was he driven to drink because he was seduced as a teenager by the schoolmaster who adopted him?

On May 16, 1968, Richard Burton purchased the 33-carat Krupp diamond - named after a wicked industrialist who'd used forced labour during the war - for £127,000 (around £3 million today).

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