In truth, there are probably photographs of Elizabeth Taylor in dozens of locations across the globe since the actress was passionate about travelling. As her fame grew, she would take a whole entourage with her wherever she went – staff, friends, family, hairdresser, pets (including a parrot) plus a photographer and security, as well as dozens of suitcases and lots of extremely valuable jewellery (she once left her famous 33-carat Krupp Diamond in a bathroom at the Cipriani in Venice). Everyone travelled first class and, like her, stayed at the finest hotels.

But her 1957 tour with Mike Todd was undoubtedly extra special. As her longtime assistant Tim Mendelson recently told People magazine, one of the things she loved about Todd was that, “He was as fascinated by new places as she was and by the time they got to the hotel Mike would've learned about the local politics, the economy, the people, the society.” He was her ideal travel companion.

Tragically, Todd died the year after their tour when his private plane, The Lucky Liz, crashed in New Mexico, but Taylor always described him as the great love of her life. So while she stayed at Raffles again in 1993 in a show of support for her beleaguered friend Michael Jackson, it is this earlier, more glamorous period of the actress’s life that is rightly commemorated by the Elizabeth Taylor Suite at Raffles Singapore.