Priscilla Presley shared a throwback photo from the day on social media on Monday.
The 78-year-old actress, sued by a former associate, published a photo of herself as a teenager and a four-legged friend.
“Elvis told me he had a surprise for me when I came to Memphis to stay,” she explained in the post.
“He introduced me to a darling little poodle I call Honey. He was very sweet and so affectionate,” she said of the curly white dog in the black-and-white photo who became a constant companion.
She said the dog followed me everywhere. He also traveled with me.
Priscilla Presley, 78, shared a photo of herself, at age 14, and a four-legged friend on social media on Monday, explaining that Elvis gave it to her when she moved to Memphis in 1963.
“He introduced me to a darling little poodle I call Honey,” she said; The couple married on May 1, 1967 in Las Vegas (photo)
The photo was taken when the duo had just landed in Memphis from Los Angeles. I didn’t know that a photographer was at the Memphis airport and took the photo as I was leaving the plane.
The former Priscilla Beaulieu moved to Tennessee to join the King of Rock and Roll in 1963. The couple met the Hound Dog singer in Germany during his two-year stint in the Army.
The singer seemed immediately attracted to the girl after meeting her at a party at his house.
The Wedding at Graceland actress was living with her mother and stepfather, U.S. Air Force Capt. Joseph Paul Beaulieu, at the time.
The rocker, then 24, seemed immediately taken with the teenager.
“My relationship with Elvis, you know, people say, ‘Oh my God, how could that happen?'” It wasn’t a sexual relationship, being 14 years old, the producer said. Agent Elvis. Fox 32 Chicago in December.
She said the idol was “very, very lonely.”
“People think, ‘Oh, it was sex.’ No, it wasn’t,” she said at a press conference for Sofia Coppola’s biopic Priscilla at the Venice Film Festival in September 2023.
“I never had sex with him. He was very kind, very gentle, very loving, but he also respected the fact that I was only 14,” she said.
“We were more aligned in our thoughts, and that was our relationship,” she maintained.
The couple welcomed their daughter Lisa Marie nine months later (photo in Memphis in February 1968)
The marriage didn’t last and the couple divorced in 1973, but the Dallas actress said they always remained close. “We had our daughter and I made sure he saw her all the time. It was like we never left each other,” she said
Elvis died at the age of 42 in 1977
Lisa Marie Presley died at age 54, shortly after Austen Butler won the Golden Globe for playing her father in Elvis in January 2023 (pictured in Beverly Hills on January 10, 2023)
The couple married in 1967 in Las Vegas and welcomed daughter Lisa Marie nine months later.
The marriage didn’t last and the couple divorced in 1973, but the Dallas actress said they always remained close.
“It didn’t ruin our relationship; we have always remained very, very close. And of course we had our daughter and I made sure he saw her all the time. It was like we never left each other.
Sadly, Elvis died at the age of 42 in 1977.
Lisa Marie Presley died at age 54, shortly after Austen Butler won the Golden Globe for playing her father in Elvis in January 2023.