
“For anyone to think anything differently would be a travesty of the family legacy and would be disrespectful of what Elvis left behind in his life." Lisa is a result of our love,” reads the first part of her statement. In a statement issued to NBC News in February, Priscilla Presley said she was proceeding in her fight with “honesty, dignity” and “integrity.” Priscilla Presley's anniversary post about Elvis Presley comes amid her petition for control of Lisa Marie Presley’s trust. They welcomed Lisa Marie Presley exactly nine months later.

The singer popped the question in 1966 and the couple married on May 1, 1967. By 1963, Priscilla Presley’s parents gave her permission to finish high school in Elvis Presley’s hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. The pair stayed in touch when Elvis Presley returned to the U.S. My family had a lot of faith in him,” Priscilla Presley told Barbara Walters for ABC in 1985. “He came to the house and he was charming and wonderful.

The pair began seeing one another, with the musician soon winning over his future bride's parents. Speaking to Larry King in 1999, Priscilla Presley said of Elvis Presley at the time of their first meeting, “I saw him at a very vulnerable time in his life. According to her, when she told the singer she was in ninth grade, he responded, “Why, you’re just a baby.” He was 24,” Priscilla Presley wrote in an 1985 essay for People. “When we met, I was an impressionable 14-year-old. Tom Hanks Used a Popular Productivity Hack to Write His First Novel-Here's How It Works
