Elvis and Me

Elvis and Me is a 1985 American biography written by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, the former wife of singer Elvis Presley. The book tells of their meeting on an American army base in Germany and their subsequent relationship.

Memphis: Elvis' family and Graceland

Priscilla Beaulieu Presley writes that Elvis did not approve of his father's relationship with divorcee Dee Stanley and did not attend their wedding (p.97). After the marriage Elvis bought a home on Heritage Drive in Memphis where Vernon Presley and his new wife resided. (p.95). On the rare occasions Dee Stanley-Presley came to Graceland, Elvis would get up and leave the room but she recounts that at Christmas or birthdays he did his best to at least be civil towards his stepmother.

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In her book, Priscilla describes how her father reluctantly allowed her to live in Memphis, Tennessee. The initial arrangement was that she live with Vernon Presley and his second wife and attend a Memphis school. She wrote that she then moved into Graceland bit by bit and that Elvis was not overtly sexual towards her. She says Presley was a very passionate man. "Any sexual temptations were against everything he was striving for, and he did not wish to betray me, the girl waiting for him at home who was preparing to be his wife." He told her that they had to wait until they were married before having intercourse. He said, "I'm not saying we can't do other things. It's just the actual encounter. I want to save it." Priscilla adds, "Fearful of not pleasing him-of destroying my image as his little girl-I resigned myself to the long wait. Instead of consummating our love in the usual way, he began teaching me other means of pleasing him. We had a strong connection, much of it sexual. The two of us created some exciting and wild times."

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