Wife of Elvis Presley

LIMITED EDITION 17/25

Born on May 25, 1945, at the Brooklyn Naval Hospital, in Brooklyn, New York. Her biggest claim to fame of course was being the first and only wife of the iconic singer and actor, Elvis Presley. Her biological father, James F. Wagner, from Cherrytree Township, Pennsylvania, married Priscilla's mother, Anna Iverson, on August 10, 1944. Wagner was a United States Naval pilot and was killed in a plane crash on November 3, 1945, when Priscilla was just 6 months old. In 1948, her mother Anna remarried U.S. Air Force Major, Paul Beaulieu, a native of Quebec, Canada. Priscilla officially changed her last name to Beaulieu, on April 17, 1950, when she was five years old. Due to Major Beaulieu's army career, her family moved around a lot so she lived at many different army bases. He was reassigned to Weisbaden, West Germany in 1959. Later that year, Priscilla was hanging around the rec center on the base looking rather bored and lonesome missing her friends in Texas where her stepfather was last stationed before the move to West Germany. It was here that she met Currie Grant, a U.S. Air Force officer who knew Elvis, and was stationed on the same base. Obviously trying to attract Priscilla's attention, Grant asked Priscilla if she knew who Elvis Presley was. Priscilla responded, of course, what teenage kid doesn't know who Elvis is. Currie then told Priscilla he knew Elvis, and invited her to a party Elvis was having at his rented home, in Bad Nauheim, near the base. At first Priscilla didn't believe Grant, and than said she would have to get permission from her parents who reluctantly agreed with a strict curfew. At the time of their first meeting, on September 13, 1959, Priscilla was only 14 years old, while Elvis was 24. According to their story Elvis was very lonely and missing home, and more than anything his beloved mother, Gladys, who Elvis worshiped, and had very recently died that left the grieving Elvis with a broken heart. Elvis found Priscilla mature for her age, and felt comfortable talking to her with stories about his mom, his birth place in Tupelo, Miss., growing up poor in the South, and of Memphis where he now had Graceland. Elvis left West Germany on March 2, 1960, upon his discharge from military service. Priscilla and Elvis talked on the phone sporadically over the next 2 years, but she was convinced she would never see him again. Then in February 1962, Elvis invited Priscilla to visit him in Los Angeles. After much pleading with her parents they allowed her to go, but only after Elvis agree to a long laundry list of guide lines. Her second visit to see Elvis was at Christmas of 1962 at Graceland. Again a bevy of rules were set down which Elvis readily agreed to obey. In March of 1963, 2 months before her 18th birthday, Elvis invited Priscilla to relocate to Memphis, but before she was allowed to make this very bold move to Memphis, as part of an agreement, Major Beaulieu supposedly got certain assurances from Elvis, one being that Elvis would eventually marry Priscilla. Shortly before Christmas of 1966, the Colonel, and RCA Records were pressuring Elvis to marry her or risk violating the morals' clause in his contract. So just before Christmas Elvis proposed to her. The couple got married in a very private ceremony in the suite of the owner of the Aladdin Hotel, in Las Vegas, on May 1, 1967. The ceremony, arranged by Colonel Parker for publicity, lasted only eight minutes, and was followed by a press conference, and a $10,000 breakfast reception attended by representatives from MGM, RCA, and the William Morris Agency. The wedding caused a lot of tension with several of Elvis's closest friends, including Red West, who was excluded from the ceremony. Although Parker bore most of the blame, the resentment lingered for years. Elvis and Priscilla's only child, Lisa Marie Presley, was born exactly 9 months later on February 1, 1968. The famous couple separated on February 24, 1972, filed for a divorce on Elvis's 38th birthday, January 8, 1973, and it was finalized on October 9, 1973. They agreed to share joint custody of Lisa Marie who happened to be staying with her father at Graceland as a 9 year old little girl on August 16, 1977 when her father died. Elvis and Priscilla were married from 1967 to 1973. After their divorce Priscilla was active in several different business ventures, including a clothing boutique, her own line of perfumes, a worldwide line of bed linens called the Priscilla Presley Collection, and was active in charity work, and much more. She also appeared in many television shows, and movie films. Her most famous television role was that of Jenna Wade in the prime time hit series Dallas. After 5 seasons and 143 episodes Priscilla left the show. In 1988, she starred opposite Leslie Nielson in the hit comedy film, "Naked Gun." She would go on to act in the next two movies in the series: The Naked Gun 2 1/2, The Smell of Fear (1991), and Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994). All three films performed solidly at the box office. She also appeared in many other films, TV shows and specials. Priscilla Presley later co-founded and chaired Elvis Presley Enterprises (EPE), which oversaw the public opening of Graceland as a museum.

Limited Edition Signature Card With Inscription: 2 1/2 x 3 1/2, Leaf collectors card. Published by Leaf Trading Cards, Printed in the USA, 2012. This is card 17 of 25. Color photo of Priscilla at top center of the card. Priscilla Presley, Inscriptions. Written in blue sharpie pen is the following beautiful handwritten inscription and signature: "I have spent many years at Graceland and have a lot of great memories. Priscilla Presley." Authentic Signature/Inscription. On the reverse of the card is printed I-PP2. Inscriptions. You have received an autographed and inscribed insert card from Leaf Trading Cards. This card bears the authentic autograph and inscription of: PRISCILLA PRESLEY. Leaf guarantees that the autograph and inscription on this card are authentic. We hope you enjoy this piece of history. Leaf Pop Century. Very desirable card, with inscription related to the home of Elvis Presley, in Memphis, Tennessee, the iconic GRACELAND. Near mint/mint condition. RARE.