
She was the most glamorous of screen legends, but the woman who dripped diamonds on the red carpet had a side few ever saw. “She was a fierce mama lioness,” says her son Christopher Wilding, 58. From giving haircuts on set to throwing holiday celebrations wherever the family called home, he says, “she took great pains to create a stable family life” for her four children, Michael and Christopher Wilding, Liza Todd Tivey and Maria Burton-McKeown. All intensely private, three generations of her family spoke to People and shared never-before-seen pictures in honor of Taylor’s final act, her passionate fight against AIDS. “She was the archetype of a mother: strong, protective, loving, comforting and funny,” says her granddaughter Laela Wilding, 42. As an activist, “what she really wanted to give people was hope and the feeling that, ‘I am here for you and I am…
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