PUBLISHED: 15:14, Mon, Nov 30, 2020 | UPDATED: 15:14, Mon, Nov 30, 2020
Link copiedPriscilla Presley met Elvis when she was a very young woman, only a teenager. Soon she was swept up in his world, living the high life in Graceland while her husband performed to millions of fans. But her life was not as it seemed to many and eventually she broke it off with The King - but did she have an affair?
Priscilla Presley has openly admitted to having had an affair during her marriage to Elvis Presley.
In her book, Elvis and Me, Priscilla takes great pains to explain how this happened in her life, though she does not give too much detail of the affair itself.
For Priscilla, it all started when she wanted to get closer to Elvis by taking up one of his hobbies: karate.
Insurance Loans Mortgage Attorney Credit LawyerShe said: “At this time another fulfilling and liberating force entered my life - karate.
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Priscilla Presley - did she have an affair? (Image: Getty)
Elvis and Priscilla Presley (Image: Getty)
“It had been Elvis’s love and hobby for years, and when I first took it up, it was just another of my efforts to get his attention and approval, as in the past when I’d enrolled in French classes because he liked the language, took flamenco dancing because he was an aficionado, and ballet because he adored dancers’ bodies…
“The training was incredibly exacting. Over and over we’d executive the same movement until perfected...
“Now I could understand Elvis’s enslavement to karate. It was an accomplishment, an achievement of confidence and physical master of self.”
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