Priscilla Presley first met Elvis in 1959 at a party in Germany, when he was 24 and she was 14. After reconnecting in Los Angeles in 1962, her parents allowed her to move closer to him in Memphis, and by 1963 she was living in Graceland.

In her memoir Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis, Priscilla revealed: “Though Elvis and I had started a relationship when I was fourteen, it didn’t become a romantic relationship until I was seventeen.” She added, “We waited to have sex until he married me at twenty-one. The fact remains, however, that there were ten years between us.”

They married in 1967 and welcomed their daughter, Lisa Marie, in 1968. Their marriage ended in 1973, with Priscilla citing Elvis’ infidelity and his anger over her affair with karate instructor Mike Stone. She claimed Elvis even “considered hiring a hitman” and later “made love to me forcefully, not forcibly,” which left her deeply hurt.

Despite the split, they stayed connected through Lisa Marie until Elvis’ death in 1977. Reflecting on her decision, Priscilla wrote: “As difficult as it was, I never regretted my decision to leave Elvis. But I never ceased to mourn it.”

Decades later, tragedy struck again when Lisa Marie died in 2023 from complications of prior surgery. Priscilla recalled the heartbreaking moment she told doctors: “Take her off the machine, Doctor. My voice was barely above a whisper.”