Priscilla Presley in Venice in September 2023.Photo:Marilla Sicilia/Archivio Marilla Sicilia/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty
Marilla Sicilia/Archivio Marilla Sicilia/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty
Priscilla Presleyis speaking out on her desire to be buried at Graceland, near her former husbandElvis Presley.
“My feelings [about being buried at Graceland] are great,” she said. “That’s, you know, what I want and wanted.”
When Morgan asked Priscilla if she’d like to be buried next to Elvis, to whom she was married from 1967 to 1973, she replied, “Yes." When he asked if it would indeed happen, she again said, “Yes.”
Elvis Presley’s gravesite at Graceland.MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty
“Elvis was… I’ve never met anyone like him and I don’t think I ever will again, ever,” Priscilla told Morgan. “He had the biggest heart. He had a great sense of humor. He had a lot of love.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Priscilla praised granddaughter Riley, 34, who officially became the sole trustee of her late mother Lisa Marie’s estate in June, five months after the stardied at age 54.
“I think Riley will be great. She has asked me a few things about what to do, and we’ll talk…,” Priscilla said. “I want to help her with Graceland. I mean, she has her own career as well and doing so well with her career. She’s so talented.”
She continued: “I told her, anything she needs to know about Graceland, about Elvis—more so about Elvis. Because she never really took a part of going to Graceland… We’d go for some special occasion [but] not that many times. But I want her to know about Elvis, and I’ll probably help her in that way.”
Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley at their 1967 wedding.Bettmann/Getty
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Lisa Marie was Elvis’ sole heir. After her death, Priscilla filed a petition contesting the “authenticity and validity” of a 2016 amendment Lisa Marie had made that removed Priscilla and her former business manager as co-trustees, and put things in the hands of Lisa Marie’s children instead.
Priscilla and Riley, Lisa Marie’s daughter with ex-husband Danny Keough, eventually reached a settlement agreement that also put Riley in charge of the sub-trusts of her 15-year-old half-sisters Harper and Finley Lockwood. Their dad, Lisa Marie’s ex-husband Michael Lockwood, signed off on the arrangement on their behalf.
Her life story is currently hitting the silver screen inSofia Coppola’s new A24 filmPriscilla, based on the 1985 memoirElvis and Me.
source: people.com
