You always keep moving" (viaPeople).
Here’s a detailed look back into the rock ‘n’ roll couple’s eternal love story.
He was with the Third Armored “Spearhead” Division in Friedberg when Priscilla came into his life.
The two ended up meeting at a party.
Priscilla and Elvis' early courtship years seemingly weren’t the easiest, though.
In the days leading up to Christmas 1966, Elvis proposed.
“He got on his knee with a gift behind his back and told me to close my eyes.
Elvis gave his ladylove, then 21, a precious three-carat diamond ring, as noted byBrides.
And so, Elvis and Priscilla’s day was nothing short of a secret mission.
The nuptials were held in the early morning before a limited audience of 14 people.
“We didn’t want a fan club.
We didn’t want a circus,” Priscilla has said, reflecting on her 1967 ceremony.
However, Priscilla said the pressure to marry came from elsewhere.
If you’re not getting married, then what are you doing?'”
(via Express).
Priscilla Presley was acutely aware that her heartthrob beau was a global sensation.
With several film credits under his name in the 1960s “Girls!
and “Viva Las Vegas,“to namea couple Elvis' celebrity was only growing.
Such was the female flattery he received that a nervous Priscilla accompanied him most everywhere.
“Women gravitated to him …
I would even go with him to get his teeth cleaned!
I always had an eye on him because everyone in the world was after him,” she toldPeople.
But being the doting wife that she was, she did it all and then some.
But Priscilla wasn’t always the self-assured public figure she now is.
Exactly nine months they got hitched in 1967, Elvis and Priscilla welcomed daughterLisa Marie Presley.
It was a tug of war of trying to make it all work,” Priscilla admitted toHuffPost.
Post-parenthood, another major change happened.
“He never wanted to see me getting dressed.
In 1972, a year before she and Elvis officially divorced, Priscilla walked out of her marriage.
Among the biggest controversies hounding the singer was his inclination towards underage girls.
He left after bringing her to the hospital.
Still, she maintained the two shared a “loving relationship.”
As the partner of a rockstar, Priscilla wasn’t playing by her own rules at all.
“I could not domesticate Elvis, and I accepted that,” Priscilla toldThe Guardian.
He had kissed her goodnight mere hours before his death on August 16.
Before long, Elvis' consistent substance abuse spelled trouble in paradise.
“I knew something was different; something was wrong,” she admitted (viaCheatsheet).
The smash-hit solidified Parton’s status as country music queen and, simultaneously, spurred Elvis to action.
Parton put her foot down, as recalled in an interview withW.
“I wanted to hear Elvis sing it, and it broke my heart I cried all night.
But I had to keep that copyright in my pocket.”
In the latter part of his life they started taking complete control.
He couldn’t think or act straight anymore” (viaPeople).
Nevertheless, she was one of the only people Elvis was in contact with during his last days.
However, Elvis' ex-wife Priscilla Presley changed all that.
With some well-calculated decisions, Priscilla jacked up the value of the estate to over $75 million.
Thanks to Priscilla, the Presley estate endures as a centerpiece of Elvis' unrivalled legacy.
Even today, one’s name is never taken without the other so iconic was their pairing.
“I don’t think I’ll ever find anyone I’ll love as much as I loved Elvis.
But it’s not scary, it’s beautiful.”
It took me a few days to overcome the emotions.”
