Here is Elvis and Priscilla Presley’s relationship timeline
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Sofia Coppola’s highly anticipated Priscilla Presley biopic, Priscilla, is finally here.
The film, starring Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny as the iconic couple, gives audiences a gritty, revealing look at the woman in Elvis’ shadow and prompts such valid questions as, “Wait, she was how old?”
So, allow us to soothe the burning (love) as here is everything you need to know about Elvis and Priscilla Presley’s relationship, from when they first met to when he died.
How did Elvis and Priscilla Presley meet?
In September 1958, Elvis was serving in the military and was sent to West Germany. While stationed in Bad Nauheim in 1959, he met a 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, the step-daughter of a U.S. Air Force Captain, at a party at his house. He was 24-years-old at the time.
From then, the pair began what would become a 13 year relationship. Priscilla maintains things never became intimate until their wedding night, when she was 21 and he was 32.
Elvis was sent back to the US in 1960, and the couple maintained their relationship at a distance until the summer of 1962, when Priscilla visited Elvis in America and buy 1963, Priscilla had convinced her parents to let her move to Memphis full-time.
Here, she moved in with Elvis’ parents and enrolled in an all-girls Catholic school.
When did Elvis and Priscilla Presley marry?
Elvis proposed to Priscilla in December 1996 with a fat ring – we’re talking 3.5 carats and 20 removable diamonds! She was 20-years-old at the time.
In May 1967, Elvis and Priscilla married in Las Vegas at the Aladdin Resort & Casino, followed by a press conference. Celebrities, they’re just like us.
Elvis arrived at the wedding on Frank Sinatra’s private jet, and the pair married in front of 14 people.
In February 1968, the couple welcomed their only child, Lisa Marie Presley. A few months before her birth, the pair considered a trial separation, their marriage affected by the stress of an unexpected pregnancy and rumors of an affair between Elvis and Nancy Sinatra. Awkward.
When did Elvis and Priscilla Presley split?
Elvis and Priscilla initially split in February 1972, following a string of rumored infidelities on both sides and a full-blown affair between Priscilla and her karate instructor, Mike Stone.
The pair were officially divorced on 15 August, 1972, but remained close until Elvis’ death.
How old was Priscilla when Elvis died?
On August 16, 1972, Elvis Presley died of hypertensive heart disease, exacerbated by years of opioid abuse. Following his death, Priscilla – who was 32-years-old when Elvis died – never remarried.
She remained in a relationship with Mike Stone until 1975, and went on to date Terry O’Neill, Robert Kardashian (yes, really!), Michael Edwards, and Marco Antonio Garcia.
In March 1987, she gave birth to her second child, Navarone Garibaldi, whom she shares with Garcia.
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