The story of Elvis and Priscilla Presley's relationship has been told in countless books, documentaries and films, including 2022's "Elvis" and most recently, Sofia Coppola's "Priscilla." Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley, formerly Beaulieu and Wagner, were married for six years, from 1967 to 1973. The couple met for the first time in 1959, when Elvis was 24 and Priscilla was 14.
Elvis Presley died in 1977 at the age of 42, just a few years after their divorce. “It was a good life,” Priscilla told of their romance in 2021. “It was different, but it was ours.
” Keep reading for a timeline of Elvis and Priscilla’s relationship — in their own words. Priscilla and Elvis’ story begins before they actually met. At the time, he was the biggest rock star in the world, and she was an 11-year-old listening to his first record at an Air Force base in Austin, Texas.
“Three years later and 5,500 miles away, I would meet him,” Priscilla wrote in an essay for in 1985. Priscilla and Elvis reportedly met in 1959 at a party in West Germany. How did the two Americans end up at a party in Wiesbaden? Well, Priscilla’s stepfather, who was in the Air Force, was transferred to the base there, and Elvis was serving in the Army.
, which Priscilla touched on in her essay. “When we met, I was an impressionable 14-year-old. He was 24,” she said.
According to Priscilla, when he found out she was in ninth grade, he responded, “Why, you’re just a baby.” Priscilla also with TOD.