As for the last book The King read, he’d taken it to the bathroom for reading on the toilet since he suffered from constipation. Around lunchtime on August 16, Elvis tragically suffered a fatal heart attack and was found collapsed dead on the floor. According to his last girlfriend Ginger Alden, who found his corpse: … Read more
Elvis Presley’s home has been open to the public as a museum for over 40 years, but nobody is allowed upstairs. That is unless you are Priscilla Presley, his granddaughter Riley Keough or someone with special permission like Graceland’s Vice President of Archives and Exhibits Angie Marchese. Even when Elvis first moved into Graceland back … Read more
Elvis Presley finally married long-term girlfriend Priscilla Beaulieu 57 years ago today on May 1, 1967, at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. Nine months to the day afterwards, the King’s only child Lisa Marie was born. Yet it wasn’t an easy ride early on in the marriage for the 21-year-old bride wed to the … Read more
Graceland opened to the public 42 years, just five years after Elvis Presley’s untimely death. Yet it wasn’t until the pandemic happened that virtual tours were offered during lockdown. For the first time, fans could witness unseen spaces from Aunt Delta’s room behind the kitchen to The King’s other private bathroom upstairs in the racquetball … Read more
Lisa Marie Presley was just nine when her father died at 42 in 1977. During her first decade, she spent many happy months at Graceland, which became a holiday treat for her when Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley divorced in 1973. Just as is the case on the tours today, the mansion’s upstairs was off-limits … Read more
