A Welsh family has transformed Richard Burton's "forgotten" Swiss grave, which lay abandoned and covered in weeds for years. Expat Philip Jennings, originally from Cardiff, said he was saddened when he saw the Hollywood legend's neglected burial site in his local newspaper in June.
The 69-year-old said: "There's a local newspaper here called Lacote. About two weeks ago now there was a whole page article under the headline which basically said: 'Has Richard Burton been forgotten?'. The photographer had been down to the old cemetery in Céligny, Switzerland, and it showed Richard Burton's gravestone and surrounding area looking very sad and neglected."
Hollywood hellraiser Burton was famous for his colourful private life as his mastery of acting before he died in 1984 at the age of just 58. Although his screen roles and marriages to Elizabeth Taylor made him one of the biggest stars in Tinseltown he came from humble beginnings in the small mining village of Pontrhydyfen near Port Talbot.
