Elvis’ Girls

Elvis Presley, as everyone knows, really loved his mom, Gladys, and it is often said she was the number one influence in his life. Gladys Presley died of a heart attack brought on by hepatitis at the age of 46 on August 14, 1958, just when her son was beginning to really take off in his career. It was very devastating to the future King of Rock and Roll.

“I don’t know why she had to go so young. But it did make me think about death. I don’t feel I’ll have a long life. That’s why I have to get what I can from every day.”

Elvis also said, “My mother, I suppose because I was an only child, I was a little bit closer, I mean, everyone loves their mother, but I was an only child and my mother was always right with me, all my life, and it wasn’t just like losing a mother, it was like losing a friend, a companion, someone to talk to. I could wake her up any hour of the night and if I was worried or troubled about something she’d get up and try to help me.”

But even Elvis had those times that we all have when our Moms try to train us up right: “I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up. It’s a natural thing when a young person wants to go somewhere or do something and your mother won’t let you, you think … ‘what’s wrong with you?’ But then later on in the years you find out, you know, that she was right. That she was only doing it to protect you, to keep you from getting in any trouble or getting hurt. And I’m very happy that she was kinda strict on me, very happy that it worked out the way it did.”

As years went on, Elvis would be on the cover of all the fan magazines with all his beautiful movie co-stars, with much speculation as to who he would marry. Would it be Ann-Margret, Juliet Prowse, Shelley Fabares, Natalie Wood, Donna Douglas and then there would be one who was not in the movies with him: Priscilla Beaulieu.

Elvis and Priscilla were married on May 1, 1967 and had their first and only child, Lisa Marie, nine months later on February 1, 1968.

Time marched on and Elvis left us early too. Lisa Marie grew up and married and had two children of her own: (Danielle) Riley Keough in 1989, and Benjamin Keough in 1992. By August 2004, 3 generations of beautiful Presley women graced the cover of Vogue:

Since then Lisa Marie Presley became the mother of twin girls, Finley and Harper Lockwood, on October 7, 2008.

Here’s wishing Priscilla and Lisa and all Moms everywhere a happy Mother’s Day.