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Archi-tory: Affection, How much I love you… Gifts as proof of love

Paco Fernandez Delgado / Paqodf

The relationship of the Dukes of Windsor was marked by different gifts as proof of love. The first of them came in the form of a universal scandal when he abdicated Eduardo VIII to the British throne so he could marry the woman he loved. The couple met and married in France, leaving to tour Europe for several years. As proof of this principle of marriage, the couple exchanged a cigarette case and a compact made of gold and whose lids were adorned with a map of Europe on which the route that the dukes took was traced with precious stones. Many more jewels and gifts would come later in the name of love.

Another king in love was Alfonso XIII. A teenager who defied his loving mother the day he decided to marry a golden-haired English princess, sky-colored eyes and, secretly, blood poisoned by hemophilia. The passion lasted for the royal couple as long as the disease took to manifest itself in the couple's first son and heir to the crown. The king cried his bad luck warming the beds of all the ladies of Madrid and surroundings who opened it for him. While, la reina, they say always in love, he found consolation in heartbreak in the special room that Cartier had in his Paris jewelry store to receive his best clients. That was how he chaton necklace that Alfonso XIII had given as a token of love to Queen Victoria Eugenia at the beginning of their relationship ended up being transformed into the memory of an unhappy marriage condemned to understand for reasons of State. The king added a new chaton every year for the queen's birthday and, gossips say, that some more chaton for one of his lovers thus silencing his guilt and his betrayal.

The jewels also marked the relationship between Richard Burton y Elizabeth Taylor. they loved each other, they hated each other, they loved, they slapped each other and laughed in orgies of diamonds and champagne. ¿Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? It may be the best testimony of the stormy and passionate relationship that the couple maintained for years. He jumped from auction to auction buying great jewelry as proof of his love. Between them, the pilgrim, a beautiful pearl that belonged to the Spanish crown, and also, one of the world's largest diamonds now named after the couple, el Taylor-Burton Diamond.

You don't always have to resort to jewelry to show love. In one of the last interviews of Maria Felix, the diva confessed her passion for smoking cigars as proof of love for her last husband, the millionaire Alex Berger. Al parecer, at the beginning of the relationship, she was greatly annoyed by the smell of the cigar that Alex used to smoke, but aware that if he said something, he would give up his vice for love, decided to look for an alternative solution. His private doctor gave it to him.: you only have two options, or stop smoking him, or learn to smoke yourself. The diva placed several cigars in a gold cigarette case and learned to smoke and wrap love with cigar smoke.

Durante 20 años, Joe Dimaggio He was sending a bouquet of roses every Monday, Wednesday and Friday to the grave of Marilyn Monroe, his great love. Legend has it that when she died they had resumed their relationship and even thought of remarrying.. It was his last test of love. And there are times when love lasts…

… until death do us part.