In the autumn of 1941, the Taylors moved from Pacific Palisades to a Spanish-style pink stucco house with a red-tiled roof on 703 North Elm Drive in Beverly Hills. The house on North Elm was a short drive to the Beverly Hills Hotel, where Elizabeth’s father, Francis, had moved his uncle’s art gallery from the Chateau Elysée apartments in Hollywood.

Elizabeth’s bedroom, with its horse figurines, wooden horse, saddle, curry combs and bridles, reflected her equine passion. But later, as she began to mature and her interests evolved, Sara Taylor redecorated her daughter’s bedroom, adding more grown-up elements. “I could see that Elizabeth was gently emerging from horsy, shirt-outside-your-pants age,” she later explained. “She was daily becoming more conscious of clothes and of her appearance. She began collecting perfume as well as horse statues.”

Now, alongside the horse paraphernalia was a dressing table, its top brimming with Elizabeth’s collection of horse figurines, with a quilted white silk stool trimmed with chintz ruffles. White organdy curtains hung at the windows and the carpet, once pearl-gray, was now dyed a dramatic red. The pink and red rosebud fabric on the headboard was repeated on the bedspread and bed skirt.

“Looking back on it, I realize that it was an invasion of her privacy suddenly to remove all her treasures—her saddles, bridles, and so on. There was so little left of her room as she liked it; it was more her room the way I liked it.”

Elizabeth would call North Elm Drive home until 1950, when she married Nicky Hilton.