Elizabeth Taylor

The screen siren spent her Hollywood career being “fashionably late”, leaving many friends and colleagues muttering that she’d be late for her own funeral. So in March 2011 she made sure she proved them right... Liz left instructions that her coffin should get to LA’s Forest Lawn cemetery 15 minutes later than the scheduled start. And she ensured it was announced to mourners that she’d done it deliberately – to have the last laugh.