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Elvis and Linda boarding a plane, 1975.

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Linda Thompson sighted at the Baptist Memorial Hospital, February 12, 1975.

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Elvis and Priscilla cutting their wedding cake, 1967.

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Priscilla arrived for her first day at I.C. dressed in a pink linen suit, looking “like a showgirl,” according to one of her teachers. “She had on makeup enough for three people,” stated Sister Rose Marie, who was considered the sophisticate of the faculty. “Very heavily made-up eyes and dark lipstick. This took away from her beauty, I thought. I don’t know whether she was trying to be Elizabeth Taylor or what. That’s one thing we frowned upon. We didn’t object to makeup, but such a heavy display of it we felt did not enhance a young girl’s looks.” Sister Rose Marie or one of the other nuns would have said something to Priscilla about it, “if she had not been Elvis Presley’s girlfriend.” The principal did insist that Priscilla wear the school uniform, compelling her to replace the tight sweaters and skirts she had taken to wearing in Wiesbaden with a schoolgirl plaid skirt, a light blue I.C.-monogrammed vest, and a while blouse, a bizarre contrast to her theatrical makeup and teased black hair. “Priscilla didn’t look like we did in a uniform anyway,” remembered a classmate. “We looked like children, and Priscilla looked sophisticated.”

Nonetheless, she tried to fit in despite the unnatural circumstances of her enrollment and her Vegas glamour. Theresa Giannini, a senior and the president of the Student Council, was asked to take Priscilla to class and show her around during her first few days. Theresa remembered her as “real nice, and quiet. She seemed pretty normal to me. She was very cooperative, didn’t put on airs or anything.”

By Priscilla’s second day at Immaculate Conception, word had reached the Memphis papers that Elvis Presley’s “houseguest” was enrolled at the school, and reporters and photographers from the Press-Scimitar and Commercial Appeal descended upon the genteel campus en masse. Sister Mary Adrian allowed Priscilla to decide whether to talk to them or not, and Priscilla decided to meet the press. The result was an astonishingly polite account of Elvis’s illegal domestic arrangement, with the Memphis papers repeating Priscilla’s story that Vernon and Dee Presley were “friends of the family, and it was lucky it worked out so I could come and visit them and finish my last semester.” With that and a photograph of Priscilla in her school uniform, the story, extraordinarily, faded out of sight in the press, though according to Anita Wood, “there was something of a scandal in Memphis. There was much talk there. Much talk. People in our hometown would never, ever [understand why] the parents of a girl that age would let her come across the ocean, to another town, and live there. It was unbelievable. It was unheard of back then.”

Suzanne Finstad, “Child Bride”

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[Priscilla] was the best thing to ever happen to me, her and the baby. I’ve got everything to work for. Believe me, I wouldn’t change anything for the world.

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“As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but a lot of affection for their parents. There was a very endearing about Elvis."Priscilla Presley.