Editing Elizabeth Taylor (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Two-year old Elizabeth Taylor, mother Sara Sothern, and brother Howard, 1934.jpg|thumb|left|Two-year old Taylor, mother Sara Sothern, and brother Howard, in 1934]]

Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born on 27 February 1932, at Heathwood, her family's home at 8 Wildwood Road in [[Hampstead Garden Suburb]], northwest London, England.<ref name="Walker">{{cite book |last=Walker |first=Alexander |title=Elizabeth: The Life of Elizabeth Taylor |year=1990 |publisher=Grove Press |isbn=0-8021-3769-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/elizabeth00walk }}</ref>{{rp|3–10}} She received dual British–American citizenship at birth as her parents, art dealer [[Francis Lenn Taylor]] (1897–1968) and stage actress [[Sara Sothern]] (1895–1994), were United States citizens, both originally from [[Arkansas City, Kansas]].<ref name=Walker/>{{rp|3–10}}{{efn|In October 1965, as her then-husband Richard Burton was British, she signed an oath of renunciation at the US Embassy in Paris, but with the phrase "abjure all allegiance and fidelity to the United States" struck out. [[United States Department of State|US State Department]] officials declared that her renunciation was invalid due to the alteration, and Taylor signed another oath, this time without alteration, in October 1966.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=s2ocAAAAIBAJ&pg=7364,5810172 |first=Richard H. |last=Boyce |title=Liz Taylor Renounces U.S. Citizenship |newspaper=The Pittsburgh Press |date=April 14, 1967 |access-date=December 1, 2018}}</ref> She applied for restoration of US citizenship in 1977, during then-husband John Warner's Senate campaign, stating she planned to remain in America for the rest of her life.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=awxPAAAAIBAJ&pg=6365,5024920 |title=Liz Taylor Applies To Be U.S. Citizen |newspaper=Toledo Blade |date=February 19, 1978 |access-date=December 1, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HxNdAAAAIBAJ&pg=5264,3479319 |first=Earl |last=Wilson |title=Will Liz Taylor be our First Lady? |newspaper=St. Joseph Gazette |date=June 15, 1977 |access-date=December 1, 2018}}</ref>}}

They had moved to London in 1929 and opened an art gallery on Bond Street; their first child, a son named Howard (died 2020), was born the same year.
The family lived in London during Taylor's childhood.<ref name="Walker" />{{rp|11–19}} Their social circle included artists such as [[Augustus John]] and [[Laura Knight]] and politicians such as Colonel [[Victor Cazalet]].<ref name="Walker" />{{rp|11–19}} Cazalet was Taylor's unofficial godfather and an important influence in her early life.<ref name="Walker" />{{rp|11–19}} She was enrolled in [[Byron House School]], a Montessori school in Highgate, and was raised according to the teachings of [[Christian Science]], the religion of her mother and Cazalet.<ref name="Walker" />{{rp|3,11–19,20–23}}

In early 1939, the Taylors decided to return to the United States due to [[Origins of World War II|fear of impending war in Europe]].<ref name=Walker />{{rp|22–26}} United States ambassador [[Joseph P. Kennedy]] contacted her father, urging him to return to the US with his family.{{sfn|Heymann|1995|p=14}} Sara and the children left first in April 1939 aboard the ocean liner [[SS Manhattan (1931)|SS ''Manhattan'']] and moved in with Taylor's maternal grandfather in Pasadena, California.<ref name=Walker />{{rp|22–28}}{{sfn|Heymann|1995|p=27}} Francis stayed behind to close the London gallery and joined them in December.<ref name=Walker />{{rp|22–28}} In early 1940, he opened a new gallery in Los Angeles. After briefly living in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, with the Chapman family, the Taylor family settled in [[Beverly Hills, California]], where the two children were enrolled in Hawthorne School.<ref name=Walker />{{rp|27–34}}