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Before (and after) he met Priscilla, Elvis was a true conqueror: his charm, his voice, and his charisma won over many women. It was important for him to find someone who looked like his mother, to be a role model for him. Indeed, when he met Priscilla, he told his friend Rex Mansfield that she was “so young that I can train her all I want.”
When Elvis Presley returned to the United States after completing his military service, a teenage Priscilla Beaulieu accompanied him to the airport to say goodbye to him.
Priscilla, in an image taken at her home in Germany when the collective statue had already returned to the United States. His future wife admitted in an interview that “I basically threatened his parents and said, ‘If you don’t let me go, I’ll find my way out.'”
Five years passed from Priscilla’s arrival in America to her marriage. Elvis asked her to finish high school in Memphis, but her parents did not want to do so; She eventually settled in Gracelando with her father, Vernon, and stepmother, Dee. The singer provided her with amphetamines so she could study and was available to him at other times. Because he wanted to ‘mold’ her, Elvis changed the way she dressed, dyed her hair black, forced her to wear similar colored clothes, and had veneers placed on her teeth to alter her smile. Gave. Priscilla later referred to herself as “Elvis’s living doll”. “It was a different time. I lived in her world. I wanted to please her. I wanted to fit in. I wanted to have fun with her. I wanted to see what she liked.”
However, the couple did not have sex until their wedding day because the aspect that interested Elvis most about Priscilla was “her companionship.” However, while he was with her, he had affairs with other women. One of the women he had an affair with was ‘Viva Las Vegas’ actress Ann-Margret. In the image, Elvis and Priscilla pose with a young Tom Jones.
Despite their years of courtship and her “chastity”, those around Elvis often nicknamed Priscilla ‘Lolita’ for her association with him. The artist’s manager, Colonel Parker, was worried about what might happen and insisted that they get married. Thus, Presley proposed to her on Christmas 1966. They married in Las Vegas on May 1, 1967; He was 32 years old and she was about to turn 22. The wedding lasted eight minutes, only 14 people attended, and they cut a $3,200 wedding cake (at the exchange rate, about $28,000 in 2022 dollars). Later there was a press conference and breakfast for another 100 people.
A copy of Elvis’ marriage certificate that long hung on the walls of the Elvis Presley Honeymoon Suite at the Aladdin Resort and Casino, where the couple were married. The establishment opened on April 1, 1966 and was demolished on April 27, 1998.
The couple spent the first days of their honeymoon in Palm Springs (California) in a house with futuristic architecture called the House of Tomorrow, which has become a place to visit for tourists and was acquired in October 2022 for $5.65 million it was done. Legend has it that Elvis walked Priscilla through the front door while singing the ‘Hawaiian Wedding Song’. After the stage in Palm Springs, they spent a few days in Mississippi and upon returning to Graceland, they threw a wedding party in spectacular fashion.
Priscilla immediately became pregnant, something that was not in the couple’s plans. In 1985 she announced, “For the first year, I wanted to be alone with Elvis without any responsibilities or obligations.” A temporary separation. “Silla, I need time to think. Things are not going well. It would be good for the two of us to take some time, like a trial separation. Live apart for a while,” he told her. Apparently they lasted two separate days. Their daughter, Lisa Marie, was born on February 1, 1968, nine months after her parents’ marriage.
After giving birth, Priscilla had an unpleasant surprise: apparently, Elvis did not want to have sex with her. Apparently, this was to give him time to recover, but she remembers that “he mentioned before our marriage that he could never love a woman who had a child with him.” Elvis chose to sleep with other women and trouble began, as she was unwilling to be the wife who was waiting for him at home.
Although, after the divorce, custody of Lisa Marie was left to Priscilla, the relationship between daughter and father was always very close. Lisa Marie remembered him this way: “Protective, very kind and very alert. I knew I was loved, there was no doubt about that. Obviously that’s not an easy thing to do, but it was very clear to me. And it was very mutual. I would never argue with him.” Lisa Marie Presley died of a heart attack as a result of a blockage in the small intestine caused by weight loss surgery on January 12, 2023.
In an interview with People magazine in 2020, Priscilla revealed more about her relationship with Elvis: “I was always ready to greet him at the door and pamper him. I really felt like taking care of him.” I liked serving him. I liked feeding him. “We talked like children, because when there are so many people around you have to have your own language. It was a good life. It was different, but it was our own language.” However, he could not cope well with the attraction he aroused in women: “They were attracted to him, so I was nervous when I had to go somewhere alone. used to go. I even went with him to clean his teeth. I kept an eye on them because everyone did.” “I kept an eye on them.” In the image, Elvis and Priscilla with their father Vernon.
One of the couple’s last photos together. In early 1972, Priscilla began a relationship with her karate coach, Mike Stone, provoking deep anger in Elvis, who even wanted to send a hitman to kill her. The couple stopped living together on 23 February and on 15 August their marriage, which had lasted just over five years, officially ended. In an interview in 2016, Priscilla said: “I didn’t divorce him because I didn’t love him. He was the love of my life, but I had to discover the world.”
Relations between the two were good until her death in 1977: Elvis and Priscilla’s companions report that they called each other every day to tell each other what they were going to do. When he learned of her death, he declared, “She wanted to die.”
In the 80s, Priscilla Presley focused her career on acting. She got one of the leading roles in the popular series ‘Dallas’ and led the poster of the ‘Agraralo como puede’ saga, among other projects.
Priscilla Presley with Austin Butler, star of ‘Elvis’ biopic directed by Baz Luhrmann. He endorsed the actor’s performance and said that “Elvis would probably be quite impressed.”
Priscilla Presley, with the team of the biopic ‘Priscilla’: left to right, Jacob Elordi, who plays Elvis; The director, Sofia Coppola, and Cailee Spaeny, who plays the singer’s ex-wife. Priscilla has expressed her concern about the audience’s reaction: “I’m very nervous because this is my life. The people who are watching it are living it with you, and you hope and pray that they see it. Understand.”
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