Elvis and priscilla's wedding

[utmom2008]

That relationship was all about money from the start. What parent in their right mind would let a a 14 year old stay at, The King Of Rock n Roll's house all night and then at 16 move in with the biggest sex symbol of the century.
I've caught her in so many lies while she's being interview, it's funny.

Marty Lacker, states in the Revelation book. He said, Elvis said, I guess I have to marry her.
I can honestly say that, I really can't stand to look at her or sleezy mother and father. When I saw them in that video, first I thing I thought was, "Ok? Talk about someone putting their family on TV and trying to reinvent Elvis History"

Yes see what I'm getting at?? Logic and common sense will tell you that she tricked him and oh ya, daddy was involved in that! She lied to him too. But as always, believe what you want.

Someone tell me where it says that Elvis said he would marry her when they made the agreement to let her come finish school there? He barely knew her. He saw her a total of how many months in Germany and then she visited once? In the mean time he was dating all kinds of other women? Does that makes sense to anyone? This whole thing happened between Cilla, Elvis, the Col. and her father. Those are the witnesses to it. All else is heresay. They made an agreement to let her finish school. Then the parents just let her stay there after. She finished school just months after she got there. By then she was 18 so what could they do???
They knew exactly what they were doing. And when they all didn't get what they wanted, Cilla made sure they would. The end result is all you need to look at to see the real deal.

I also agree that if Elvis had been so wild about Priscilla he would not have waited so long to marry her, nor would he have had the MM around so much, spent so little time with her or had so many other girls on the side....does not compute!!! That does not sound that she was all that precious to him. I frankly think he was bowled over by her looks initially but not in love and I believe it was her who pushed to go live with him at Graceland and he gave in like he did with a lot of things he shouldn't have (the Colonel for instance)....then he was stuck big time.

Jen, we only have Priscilla's word for it that it was Elvis who went through all the trouble to get her to Graceland. I would be very interested to know how many letters and phone calls came from Germany versus Tennessee.

Still don't believe that for one min, doesn't make sense at all.

I feel better knowing I'm in good company.

[presley31]

I'd never heard or read that Pris and Anne didn't get along Jen. Maybe it was part that Anne never told her until about the time she met Elvis that Paul wasn't her real father and maybe the rest was that she realized they couldn't have had much respect or concern for her for allowing her into that relationship with Elvis for their own greed.

Who knows what Priscilla really feels at this time. She very well could be full of resentment towards her parents at the same time consoling herself with all that money. She never looks like a happy person and never did.

I wasn't supposed to date until I was sixteen either but I sneaked. A couple of times in the front seat of a car and a fight with a not so nice kid of 16 when I was 14 decided me that I wasn't ready. I didn't date again until I was sixteen and that was my first love and lasted 3 years.

Diane

If you watch priscilla and her parents you can see there not so loving like some want to believe. I really feel there was alot more going on behind close doors in priscilla family.

[utmom2008]

Where is the proof or sources to what you say are true?? it seems to me there more Speculation than any turth in this thread. There is only one book that has all the informtion that have been saying and thats child bride and l would never take anything serious when david stanley has a hand in it.

OMG...you have never seen that interview with Elvis??? I'ts even shown in This is Elvis. That's where I'm getting the truth from. Why does he say it was "no big thing..nothing special"? I don't believe much of what David Stanley says either...just as I don't put alot of stock into what Pris says about this either.

[utmom2008]

I'd never heard or read that Pris and Anne didn't get along Jen. Maybe it was part that Anne never told her until about the time she met Elvis that Paul wasn't her real father and maybe the rest was that she realized they couldn't have had much respect or concern for her in allowing her into that relationship with Elvis for their own greed.

Who knows what Priscilla really feels at this time. She very well could be full of resentment towards her parents at the same time consoling herself with all that money. She never looks like a happy person and never did.


Diane

I had never heard that either Diane. How interesting then that Pris has had such problems with the 2 most important female relationships in her life. Her Mother and her daughter. Maybe that's why she never looks happy.

[presley31]

OMG...you have never seen that interview with Elvis??? I'ts even shown in This is Elvis. That's where I'm getting the truth from. Why does he say it was "no big thing..nothing special"? I don't believe much of what David Stanley says either...just as I don't put alot of stock into what Pris says about this either.

must of miss the part, but l do remember the part where he says losing priscilla was hard after all those years and than he talks about Linda after that

[Tommy]

What speaks volumes is Elvis being interviewed shortly after returning home and being asked about Pris. I know it must have made her feel all warm and fuzzy inside when he says he was seeing a little girl some while he was there, but it wasn't anything special. Maybe that's when Paul and Ann put their plan in motion. And..I would like to "see" the proof that Elvis pushed and begged for her to come be with him. We don't know either for sure. And....we never will.

Remember in the interview, he said he had to be careful what he said. In other words, (at this time in his career, Col. Parker didn't want the fans to think he had a girlfriend) it would have been bad for business.

[Diane]

I do think Elvis still liked Priscilla at that coming home interview but also that the Colonel didn't want the public to know it. I think he just lost interest once he was home and seeing others again.

In some ways I feel sorry for Priscilla in being used as a pawn by her parents but in another she had a mind of her own she could have used...she had 6 or was it 7 years at Graceland to dwell upon it.....I guess she did....eventually, she got a divorce but not until she had a baby to secure her interests....parental advice???

I would dearly love to know more about the Beaulieus. They strike me as wrong wrong wrong and I want to know why. All I can gleam is that it didn't take Anne long to find another man after Priscilla's real father died. Did she really love Paul or was he a convenience to her being alone with a baby daughter? Her fantasies about stardom...is that what led her to send her young daughter to a mega star's home...living vicariously through Elvis and Priscilla?

Bothers me no end that so little can be found about these people yet Elvis' life has been ripped and torn wide open for all the world to see.

Yeah yeah, I've heard it was BECAUSE he was a big star but that still doesn't explain the deep secrecy about people who were so close to him.

Diane

[franny]

Remember in the interview, he said he had to be careful what he said. In other words, (at this time in his career, Col. Parker didn't want the fans to think he had a girlfriend) it would have been bad for business.

Yes, Tommy. That is true. Elvis was careful with what he said in an interview.

I would still like to know why Elvis would even bother with Priscilla after the army, if he did not love her? I mean, it would have been easy for him to not answer the phone, to have no contact, to not bother with her, period! They weren't even in the same country!

He could have easily said he had a girlfriend at home, which he did Anita Wood and just cut Priscilla off...

franny

[presley31]

One thing that strikes me odd is why didn't Ann came out and tell priscilla about her real father?? I know from experince when l got adopted and it was kept from me for years and when l did find out, l went wild and did everything to make my parents mad at me or hurt, maybe in some ways priscilla was doing the same, but she could of been different and never stood up to her parents and let them rule her life and which l can see

[Diane]

She probably did go wild Jen. I think that would be a natural reaction from finding out news like that in your teens. I knew one poor girl in my hometown who was unstable to begin with and it sent her clear over the edge to live in institutions the rest of her life. I never understood the reasoning behind keeping an adoption or as in Priscilla's case the real identity of her father hidden.

How can you expect openness and honesty from your children if you don't give it?

Diane

[nyc]

I would dearly love to know more about the Beaulieus. They strike me as wrong wrong wrong and I want to know why. All I can gleam is that it didn't take Anne long to find another man after Priscilla's real father died. Did she really love Paul or was he a convenience to her being alone with a baby daughter? Her fantasies about stardom...is that what led her to send her young daughter to a mega star's home...living vicariously through Elvis and Priscilla?

Priscilla said (I think in her book) that her mother considered Elvis' music obscene and that she said she wouldn't let Priscilla cross the street to meet Elvis Presley.

Then Elvis turned up in Germany and we all know what happened, LOL.

I would still like to know why Elvis would even bother with Priscilla after the army, if he did not love her? I mean, it would have been easy for him to not answer the phone, to have no contact, to not bother with her, period! They weren't even in the same country!

I think Elvis did believe she'd make a good wife for him down the line. And I think Priscilla was infatuated with him, at the least. But as it turns out they just didn't have that much in common. Priscilla didn't like the touring, had no use for Elvis' religious interests, and wanted a career of her own. I think Priscilla's show business aspirations alone would have broke them up eventually, even without all of the other things going on in the strange rock star world they lived in.

[utmom2008]

One thing that strikes me odd is why didn't Ann came out and tell priscilla about her real father?? I know from experince when l got adopted and it was kept from me for years and when l did find out, l went wild and did everything to make my parents mad

I knew one poor girl in my hometown who was unstable to begin with and it sent her clear over the edge to live in institutions the rest of her life. I never understood the reasoning behind keeping an adoption or as in Priscilla's case the real identity of her father hidden.

How can you expect openness and honesty from your children if you don't give it?

Diane

This is an interesting point that both of you have brought up. Why do parents do that to a child?? There was a very prominent family in Dallas and the entire city I think knew they were both adopted. Everyone that is except the 2 girls. They were well up into their 20's before they found out, and after that their relationship with their parents was strained until the day the parents died. That is so pointless!

Jen, why did your parents say they waited to tell you? Or did you find out by accident? I know they NEVER mean to hurt the child, yet it always does.

[Diane]

Just my opinion Rosanne but I think the parents don't think the child is ready to deal with the news until they are in their teens. They don't realize that it's a greater shock than it would be if they grew up with the truth.

Diane

[utmom2008]

eventually, she got a divorce but not until she had a baby to secure her interests....parental advice???

I would dearly love to know more about the Beaulieus. They strike me as wrong wrong wrong and I want to know why. All I can gleam is that it didn't take Anne long to find another man after Priscilla's real father died. Did she really love Paul or was he a convenience to her being alone with a baby daughter? Her fantasies about stardom...is that what led her to send her young daughter to a mega star's home...living vicariously through Elvis and Priscilla?

Bothers me no end that so little can be found about these people yet Elvis' life has been ripped and torn wide open for all the world to see.

Yeah yeah, I've heard it was BECAUSE he was a big star but that still doesn't explain the deep secrecy about people who were so close to him.

Diane

I want to know ALL those same things too Diane. You would think there would be soooo much more out there on them, considering the fact that Elvis was their son-n-law at one point.

[MissyM]

Everyone realizes that Elvis only knew Priscilla in Germany from Oct. 1959-Feb,1960. In that time he had to participate in the military, spent his weekend leaves partying with guys and other women. He also send Anita a poodle for Christmas, Calls her to tell her he'll be home. Then it was 2 1/2 years before he let her visit. She gets there to live (a few months after that) and 5 months later he falls in love with Ann Margaret and has an affair. So I tend to believe Elvis that is wasn't that big a deal when he said it. I'm not saying that he wasn't very fond of her or didn't grow to love her, but he wasn't ready to marry her for some reason. And it sure wasn't this mad love like she tells in her book.
And as for that wedding night story, sound like someone got that out of a romance book. Come on now, think about it, I thought she was supposed to be a virgin that night. Ahh, so far no one has ever told me that their "first time" was anything like that. Not going to be graphic, that is stuff that happens in movies.

[Donut]

Jen, we only have Priscilla's word for it that it was Elvis who went through all the trouble to get her to Graceland. I would be very interested to know how many letters and phone calls came from Germany versus Tennessee.

Diane

Diane, I was sure I had heard Anita Wood talking about one letter she found from Priscilla asking Elvis to please call her father and talk him into letting her go to Memphis and I just found a link were she tells the story.

http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/inte...a_wood_2.shtml


As a side note Elvis used to bring his girlfriends home to stay, Linda, Dixie, Anita, Elisabeth... that didn´t mean he had to marry them, he just got what he wanted and when he wanted untill the girls got fed up but Priscilla resisted till she got what he searched for. Like she herself said in her book she was determined to get him no matter what.

[utmom2008]

Everyone realizes that Elvis only knew Priscilla in Germany from Oct. 1959-Feb,1960. In that time he had to participate in the military, spent his weekend leaves partying with guys and other women. He also send Anita a poodle for Christmas, Calls her to tell her he'll be home. Then it was 2 1/2 years before he let her visit. She gets there to live (a few months after that) and 5 months later he falls in love with Ann Margaret and has an affair. So I tend to believe Elvis that is wasn't that big a deal when he said it. I'm not saying that he wasn't very fond of her or didn't grow to love her, but he wasn't ready to marry her for some reason. And it sure wasn't this mad love like she tells in her book.
And as for that wedding night story, sound like someone got that out of a romance book. Come on now, think about it, I thought she was supposed to be a virgin that night. Ahh, so far no one has ever told me that their "first time" was anything like that. Not going to be graphic, that is stuff that happens in movies.

Missy...I wrote that. I took it straight out of her book, word for word.Sandra Brown could have written a much steamier scene I feel sure.

[Diane]

I agree Donut, Priscilla's description of their wedding night does sound like it's straight out of a romance novel and you are also right, the first time is not always so wonderful to many women...if you are a virgin.

And thanks for the article featuring an interview with Anita. I don't think I've ever read that one. It was great. As to finding the letter and Elvis' being torn between the two, that sounds true to me. I think Priscilla was putting a lot of pressure at that time.

Diane

[Brian]

Does anyone know what Elvis and Priscilla had in common?
If anybody knows would you please tell me
I know they were different in a lot of ways but I bet there were things they had in common and things they both liked to do. I am just drawing a blank right now. anybody that could answer I would appreciate it.
Also Priscilla moved to many places while growing up, being an army brat and all. I was wondering if Priscilla actually said where she considers herself from
I know she was born in Brooklyn and spent some time in Austin Texas but I wonder if she considers herself a Newyorker, a Texan, A midwesterner. where does Priscilla consider herself to be from. If anybody knows I would appreciate your answer

[Donut]

I agree Donut, Priscilla's description of their wedding night does sound like it's straight out of a romance novel and you are also right, the first time is not always so wonderful to many women...if you are a virgin.

And thanks for the article featuring an interview with Anita. I don't think I've ever read that one. It was great. As to finding the letter and Elvis' being torn between the two, that sounds true to me. I think Priscilla was putting a lot of pressure at that time.

Diane

Diane, I didn´t post the quote of her wedding night, and well... I´m not a virging either