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Feb 23, 2024 · How Priscilla Presley Went from Elvis’ Young Love Interest to His ‘Living Doll’. Their turbulent courtship and marriage is the focus of the 2023 Sofia Coppola movie Priscilla, now...
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- September 1959: Elvis Presley Meets Priscilla Beaulieu
- Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu Share Their First Kiss
- Elvis Presley Meets Priscilla Beaulieu's Parents
- Elvis Presley Courts Priscilla Beaulieu
- March 2, 1960: Elvis Presley Leaves Germany
- March 22, 1960: Elvis Presley Calls Priscilla Beaulieu
- Summer 1962 - Priscilla Beaulieu Visits Elvis Presley in L.A
- December 25, 1962: Priscilla Beaulieu Visits Elvis Presley For The Holidays
- Priscilla Beaulieu Moves in with Elvis Presley's Parents in Memphis
- Priscilla Beaulieu Moves Into Graceland with Elvis Presley
The pair first crossed paths when Priscilla was in the ninth grade. The then-teenager was escorted to Elvis's home by Currie Grant, a friend of the singer's she had met at the Eagles Club. "I spotted Elvis immediately," she would later tell PEOPLE. "He was handsomer than he appeared in films, younger and more vulnerable looking with his GI haircut....
Priscila continued to visit Elvis at his home in Germany, and on their third meeting, the pair shared their first kiss. "When it was time for me to go, he kissed me goodbye— my first real kiss," she told PEOPLE in 1985. "He broke away first, saying, 'We have plenty of time, Little One.' He kissed my forehead and sent me home."
Priscilla's parents insisted on meeting Elvis, so on their fourth encounter, he came to her family's home. "He arrived in his BMW wearing his Army uniform to impress dad," she told PEOPLE. It didn't make him immune from examination, however, with Priscilla's father inquiring as to his intentions for his daughter. "'Well, sir, I happen to be very fo...
Elvis's speech did the trick, and Priscilla was allowed to continue seeing him despite their 10-year age gap. For the next several months, the pair settled into a comfortable routine. "Elvis would call after 7 to let me know that I'd be picked up at 8. I had to dress quickly, trying to find some way to appear older than my age," the actress told PE...
Priscilla and Elvis spent his last night in Germany together before he returned home to America. "We were lying on his bed, our arms around each other," she recalled to PEOPLE. "I was in a state of complete despair." Things got worse once Elvis left. "I locked myself in my room, unable to eat, unable to sleep," Priscilla said. "Finally I forced mys...
Despite reports of a budding romance between Elvis Presley and Nancy Sinatra overseas (something the "These Boots Are Made for Walking" singer would later deny) the Love Me Tender star didn't forget about Priscilla. "21 days after he left, the phone rang at 3 o'clockin the morning," she recounted to PEOPLE in 1985. According to Priscilla, Presley s...
Two years after leaving Germany, Elvis arranged for his long-distance love to visit him in Los Angeles following what Priscilla told PEOPLE were several convincing phone callsto both her mother and father. In addition to promising to send them a daily itinerary of the couple's activities, Elvis conceded to making sure Priscilla wrote home every day...
After spending a few months back home in Germany, Priscilla traveled to Tennessee once moreto see Elvis. "We were apart for a few months, then Elvis and I spent the Christmas of 1962 together at Graceland," she told PEOPLE.
Elvis convinced Priscilla's father to let her finish out her senior year at Immaculate Conception High School in Memphis, Tennessee, on the condition that she live with his parents, Vernon and Dee Presley. "Living with them turned out to be difficult," Priscilla told PEOPLE. "I felt out of place in their home, and did not want to be an intrusion in...
Rather than continue her discomfort, Priscilla moved into Elvis's Graceland home while he was away in L.A. "In the afternoons and evenings I began spending more time at Graceland with Elvis' grandma, often staying all night," she recounted to PEOPLE. "Almost unnoticed, I began to move in my things. … By the time he suggested that I move into Gracel...
- Nicole Briese
Jun 24, 2022 · After seven years of dating, Elvis and Priscilla Presley tied the knot in an intimate Las Vegas civil ceremony on the morning of May 1, 1967. The wedding, which lasted only eight minutes, was...
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- Shannon Carlin
Feb 27, 2024 · Elvis and Priscilla Presley were married for six years, from 1967 to 1973. They met in 1959 when Priscilla was 14 and Elvis was 24.
- Gabbi Shaw
Nov 2, 2023 · Sofia Coppola's new film 'Priscilla' adapts Priscilla Presley's memoir 'Elvis and Me,' telling the lesser-known version of Elvis' relationship with his wife.
- Berkley
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Oct 16, 2023 · Elvis Presley was a 24-year-old soldier stationed in Germany when he started dating Priscilla Beaulieu, who was a freshman in high school at the time. When Priscilla Beaulieu was 11 years old, her stepfather came home and gave her a record as a gift.
Sofia Coppola’s new biographical drama “Priscilla” delves into Priscilla Presley's relationship with singer Elvis Presley — including how the two met when he was 24 and Priscilla was just 14...
