'Women gravitated to him, so I would be nervous when he had to go places alone. However, Elvis and Priscilla ended up traveling to Las Vegas the next day, and she actually pre-wrote letters from Los Angeles to be sent every day while she was in Vegas.Īnn-Margret and Elvis Presley rehearse the duet they are to sing in the film Viva Las Vegas. When the idea of a trip was brought up, Priscilla's father demanded 'we wait until I was on summer vacation, that Elvis send me a first-class round-trip ticket, that he send my parents an itinerary of my daily activities for the two weeks I'd be in Los Angeles, that I be constantly chaperoned, and that I write my parents every day.' Elvis agreed to all these demands, and Priscilla made the trip. In retrospect, I don't think anything could have stopped me from seeing Elvis,' Priscilla wrote in 1985. Whenever they tried to stop us from seeing each other, I pleaded and cried and made them and myself miserable. We tried to make them believe that it was proper and platonic, and they wanted to believe me. 'My parents became confused and bewildered by our relationship. There are other pictures where I am down and looking away,' she said. 'One request that he asked, that I not be teary-eyed. In a June 2022 video for Vogue, Priscilla reminisced on the outfit (pictured above) she wore to say goodbye to Elvis. 'For the two days after Elvis left, I locked myself in my room, unable to eat, unable to sleep.' 'Would I ever see him again, be in his arms the way I had been nearly every night for the past six months? I could not bear the thought of the night ending and us saying goodbye for what I thought would be the last time. We were lying on his bed, our arms around each other. Of the night before Elvis went back to the US, Priscilla wrote in 1985, 'It was March 1, 1960, the night before Elvis was to leave Germany to return to the States.

It often indicates a user profile.Įlvis Presley's girlfriend Priscilla waves goodbye to Elvis as he departs from the air base in 1960. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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