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\n<\/p>\n

\nBy
\nDaily Mail Reporter<\/a>
Last updated at 5:03 PM on 30th March 2011<\/p>\n

She certainly had a dramatic life worthy of a movie script which has been remembered in the days since her death. <\/p>\n

But Elizabeth Taylor\u2019s entry into this world may well have been just as dramatic as the rest of her life and it has emerged.<\/p>\n

According to history books the actress was born at her parents home in Hampstead, North-West London.<\/p>\n

\n\"Birth<\/p>\n

Birth place: Elizabeth Taylor may have been born at a swingers party in Cheshire it has been claimed. Pictured here together in 1937<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

But in the wake of her death last week it has been claimed that her
\nmother actually gave birth to Elizabeth at a swingers’ party in Hartford,
\nCheshire.<\/p>\n

According to author and publisher Mark Bevan, Elizabeth\u2019s mother Sara gave birth at the wild bash before racing back to London. <\/p>\n

The
\nformer editor of the Northwich Guardian newspaper said he believes
\nLiz\u2019s parents, actress Sara and art dealer Francis travelled up to enjoy
\nweekend parties that he describes as the swingers of the 1930s.<\/p>\n

Mark
\nsaid: ‘The story, and I have no reason to doubt its veracity, came from
\nthe grandson of a Hartford woman who, especially during the 1920s and
\n30s, worked at some of the village\u2019s large houses, many connected with
\ntop ICI personnel who spent a good deal of their time in London.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\n\"Elizabeth<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Taylor, aged seven, displaying clearly the double set of eyelashes that framed her eyes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018Weekend parties in Hartford were well known and at one house the
\nguests occasionally included Francis and Sara Taylor, from London, who,
\nit was politely put to me, were swingers of their day engaged in what
\nwere then illegal practices. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018The Taylors would travel to
\nHartford by train, or arrive in a large Buick which the millionaire
\nVictor Cazalet had apparently bought for them.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018The story fits in as much as Liz\u2019s birthday, 27 February 1932, was a Saturday.\u2019<\/p>\n

Sara retired from acting in 1926 when she married Elizabeth\u2019s father<\/p>\n

On
\none such visit to Hartford, in 1932, Mrs Taylor was heavily pregnant
\nand, unexpectedly, gave birth during the night to a daughter. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The
\nTaylors certainly didn\u2019t want anyone to know where they were and so the
\nfollowing morning they hastily returned to London where the birth of
\nthe child, Elizabeth Taylor, was registered.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\n\"Dramatic<\/p>\n

Dramatic start to a dramatic life: Elizabeth Taylor life has been remembered in the days since her death<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I was told that Elizabeth Taylor herself knew the truth.\u00a0 After she became famous something came up about her birthplace she instantly responded Hartford, hastily added\u00a0 Connecticut and then corrected it to London.<\/p>\n

He added:\u00a0 \u2018When this came up I was astonished by it it\u2019s an astonishing gem.
Sadly Mark does not know which house the star was born in but suspects it could have been in The Crescent. <\/p>\n

Hartford was also the birth place for another screen icon, Ann Todd, in 1909, who went on to star in films from 1931 to 1979. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Pat Hatfield, from Hartford Civic Society, said: I haven\u2019t heard anything about Elizabeth Taylor being born in Hartford before but I\u2019m fascinated and shall do some research.<\/p>\n

Do you have a story about a celebrity? Call the Daily Mail showbusiness desk on 0207 938 6364 or 0207 938 6683. For U.S. stories, phone 310 642 2317.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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