1920: James Wagner, Priscilla (Beaulieu) Wagner’s biological father, is born to Kathryn and Harold Wagner.
1922: Priscilla (Beaulieu) Wagner’s maternal uncle, Albert Iversen, Jr., is born to Albert and Lorraine Iversen.
1924: Priscilla (Beaulieu) Wagner’s maternal uncle, James Iversen, is born to Albert and Lorraine Iversen.
March 13, 1926, Saturday: Anne Lillian Iversen, Priscilla (Beaulieu) Wagner’s mother, is born. She is of Norwegian heritage.
1940: Priscilla (Beaulieu) Wagner’s parents, Anne Iversen and James Wagner, meet at a USO dance.
August 10, 1944, Thursday: Priscilla’s parents, Anne Iversen and James Wagner, elope to Pensacola, Florida. Anne was 14 years old at the time, and James was 20.
May 24, 1945, Thursday: Weighing 8lbs, Priscilla Ann Wagner, is born at 10:40pm at the Brooklyn Navel hospital in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York.
November, 1945: Priscilla’s father, James Wagner, is killed when the plane he was on crashed into a mountain during a snowstorm in Wingdale, New York.
Spring, 1948: Anne Iversen Wagner meets Joseph Beaulieu at New London Junior College.
September 11, 1948, Saturday: Anne Iversen Wagner, Priscilla’s mother, marries Joseph Paul Beaulieu in Groton, Connecticut.
December 30, 1949, Friday: Priscilla’s half-brother, Donald Paul, is born.
April 17, 1950, Monday: Joseph Beaulieu legally adopts Priscilla.
Late 1954: Michelle Beaulieu, Priscilla’s half-sister, is born.
August 15, 1959, Saturday: Captain Joseph Beaulieu moves from Texas to Weisbaden Air Force Base near Friedberg, Germany, accompanied by his wife and children, including his 14 year-old stepdaughter, Priscilla Ann.
September 13, 1959, Sunday: Currie Grant brings fourteen year old Priscilla Beaulieu, whom he has met at the Eagle Club in Wiesbaden, to the house on Goethestrasse to meet Elvis. No one present misses his immediate attraction to the beautiful young girl in the blue and white sailor dress and white socks, and he tells Charlie Hodge not long afterward that Priscilla is “like the woman I’ve been looking for all my life.” From this point on, Priscilla will join the group that gathers at Elvis’ house almost every evening during the week and again on weekends, a group that now includes a new army buddy from Chicago, Joe Esposito.
December 25, 1959, Friday: Priscilla gives Elvis a set of bongo drums.
January 8, 1960, Tuesday: Priscilla Beaulieu helps Elvis celebrate his 24th birthday at his home at 14 Goethestrasse with his friends and family.
March 2, 1960, Wednesday: Priscilla Beaulieu is held back by military policemen at the Rhine-Main air base as she tries to bid Elvis one last farewell. She is captured by Life magazine waving Goodbye, with the photo appearing in the March 14 issue and captioned “Girl He Left Behind” The military transport takes off at 5:25 P.M., stopping briefly to refuel in Prestwick, Scotland, before heading for New Jersey.
March 24, 1960, Thursday: Priscilla Beaulieu receives the first of many phone calls from Elvis Presley.
January 28, 1962, Sunday: Timothy and Thomas Beaulieu, twin brothers, are born in Weisbaden, Germany.
June 17, 1962, Sunday: Priscilla Beaulieu arrives from Germany on the weekend for a two week visit. After lengthy negotiations Elvis has convinced her parents to allow her to fly to Los Angeles, where he assures them she will be well chaperoned in the Griffith Park home of Kustom King George Barris and his wife.
June 19, 1962, Thursday: After a brief visit with the Barrises Priscilla has moved into 10539 Bellagio Road for approximately one day before Elvis decides to show her Las Vegas. They travel with the guys in the newly customized motor home and stay at the Sahara for the next twelve days. It is at the hotel that Priscilla is given a new look at Elvis’ request by hairdresser Armond.
July 1, 1962, Sunday: After checking out of the Sahara, Elvis and Priscilla return to Los Angeles, where she takes a tearful flight back to Germany while Elvis prepares to drive home to Memphis.
December 19, 1962, Wednesday: Vernon and Dee fly to Idlewild Airport in New York to meet Priscilla, who is arriving on a flight from Germany. They will accompany her to Memphis, with her ticket reserved in the name of “Priscilla Fisher”. Elvis picks her up at his father’s home on Hermitage Road so that he can show her Graceland for the first time himself, driving her past the annual Christmas display on the lawn, including the life size nativity scene that is still in use today.
December 20, 1962, Thursday: Priscilla misses her first two days in Memphis because of the pills Elvis has given her to help her sleep on the first night. The rest of her vacation is spent seeing the places where Elvis grew up, roller-skating, attending movies at the Memphian, and dining out at Chenault’s Drive-In.
December 25, 1962, Tuesday: Elvis and Priscilla have a private part for thirty friends, and he gives her a six-week old toy poodle she names Honey. Priscilla gives Elvis a wooden cigarette box that plays ‘Love Me Tender.’
January 11, 1963, Friday: Despite Elvis’ efforts to convince her parents to allow her to stay in Memphis, Priscilla flies home on schedule to Frankfurt, Germany.
March 2, 1963, Saturday: Sometime before filming is completed, Priscilla arrives in Los Angeles with her father, Captain Paul Beaulieu, to meet with Elvis and conclude arrangements permitting Priscilla to live in Memphis with Vernon and Dee and complete her senior year at Immaculate Conception High School. His father and stepmother will take good care of her, Elvis assures Captain Beaulieu, and she will get a good education at the Catholic parochial school.
March 22, 1963, Friday: Elvis is released after Hal Wallis views and approves the film Thursday evening, leaving almost immediately for Memphis, where Priscilla is waiting.
April 1, 1963, Monday: Shortly after his return to Memphis, Elvis buys Priscilla a red Corvair so that she can drive herself to school instead of being chauffeured every day by Vernon.
April 2, 1963, Tuesday: Elvis is spotted with Priscilla in the Chenault’s parking lot by a Memphis Press-Scimitar reporter. He tells the reporter that Priscilla is the daughter of an army officer who “sent her ahead because she wanted to graduate on time.” Her family, he suggests, is not far behind and was, as has already been reported in the Commercial Appeal, friendly with his family in Germany.
April 4, 1963, Thursday: On this and at least five other days in the next two weeks Elvis purchases a total of $1,388.69 worth of women’s clothing at Laclede’s on Union Avenue for Priscilla.
May 29, 1963, Wednesday: Priscilla graduates from Immaculate Conception High School, but Elvis does not attend after Priscilla expresses concern that his presence will cause too much of a disruption. He waits outside in his car before taking her home for the graduation party that he has planned. They will spend the next month together at Graceland.
August 6, 1963, Tuesday: Back in Memphis, Priscilla starts reading press reports of the romance between Elvis and Ann-Margret.
November 6, 1963, Wednesday: Filming begins at the MGM Studios. Priscilla joins Elvis in Hollywood after reading press reports that he and Ann-Margret have been seen motorcycle riding together.
November 8, 1963, Friday: Ann Margret is quoted in a nationally syndicated UPI repost from London, where she is attending the royal premiere of Bye Bye Birdie, that she is in love with Elvis but doesn’t know if they will marry. With the story’s publication, the Colonel advises Elvis to send Priscilla back to Memphis immediately in order to avoid press inquiries into their relationship.
December 25, 1963, Wednesday: Elvis spends Christmas with Priscilla at Graceland.
October 12, 1965, Tuesday: Priscilla’s white Honda motorcycle arrives C.O.D. from California.
December 25, 1965, Saturday: Picking up on Elvis’ latest enthusiasm, Priscilla gives him a home slot-car racing set, purchased at the Robert E. Lee Raceway in Whitehaven, where they have been spending much of their recreational time since returning to Memphis. Elvis was introduced to slot-car racing in California, and like all of his enthusiasms he approaches it with a passion that borders on monomania for a time.
December 26, 1965, Sunday: Elvis has a small party at Graceland with food provided by Monty’s Catering for $52.52. Sometime over this Christmas season Elvis finally tries LSD under carefully controlled conditions. He has read about it for more than a year now and, according to Larry Geller, like everything else Elvis did, “He tripped Elvis-style…Several hours after we had started we watched a science fiction movie, The Time Machine, and sent out for pizza.” Later, Elvis, Larry, Priscilla, and Jerry walk out behind Graceland and talk about “how lucky were were to have such good friends and about how much we cared about one another.” So far as anyone knows, this is the only time Elvis took LSD.
December 31, 1965, Friday: Elvis and Priscilla hold a New Year’s Eve party at the Manhattan Club once again for friends, family, and fans. Among the groups and singers that entertain are a local group, the Guillotines, the Willie Mitchell Band with Don Bryant on vocals, local soul singer Vaneese Williams (who performs “Hound Dog”) and songwriter (“Hold on, I’m Comin’”) David Porter.
January 8, 1966, Saturday: Priscilla helps celebrate Elvis’ thirty-first birthday by attending It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World at the Memphian.
February 3, 1966, Thursday: Elvis arrives in Los Angeles and settles into his new home at 10550 Rocca Place, Bel Air, which, like the Bellagio house, is rented from Mrs. Reginald Owen. The new ranch-style house is meant to offer more privacy for Elvis and Priscilla.
August 30, 1966, Tuesday: Throughout the summer the press has been reporting rumors of marriage between Elvis and Priscilla. In a letter that appears in Elvis Monthly, Vernon writes to the official British fan magazine to squash the story but adds that he wouldn’t object to his marrying Priscilla or anyone else he might choose.
December 20, 1966, Tuesday: Elvis buys two bay horses, one of which is his Christmas gift to Priscilla. As part of this new gentleman-farmer phase, he also purchases a horse for Jerry Schilling’s fiancee, Sandy Kawelo, so that Priscilla will have someone with whom to ride.
December 24, 1966, Saturday: Just before Christmas, Elvis proposes to Priscilla, presenting her with a ring he has purchased from jeweler Harry Levitch some time before.
December 25, 1966, Sunday: Elvis spends Christmas at Graceland with Priscilla and his family. Christmas dinner is catered by Monte’s Catering Service.
February 14, 1967, Tuesday: From Harry Levitch Elvis buys a man’s white gold horseshoe ring for $475, a lady’s horseshoe pin for $475, and a special Valentine’s charm.
March 12, 1967, Sunday: Sometime late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning Elvis falls in the bathroom at Rocca Place. The Colonel arrives, and a doctor is called, returning Friday with a portable X-ray machine which indicates that Elvis has not sustained a fracture. After learning of the accident,Vernon and Priscilla fly out immediately from Memphis.
May 1, 1967, Monday: After midnight, on Monday morning, the wedding party (consisting of family, George Klein, Harry Levitch, and those members of the entourage already in California) leaves for Las Vegas in two leased jets, and at 3:30 A.M. Elvis and Priscilla obtain a $15 marriage license at the Clark County Courthouse. The ceremony is held at approximately 11:45 A.M. at the Aladdin Hotel in the second-floor suite of the Colonel’s friend, owner Milton Prell, with Nevada Supreme Court Justice David Zenoff presiding and the Colonel in charge. Out of the entire entourage and their wives, only Joe Esposito and Marty Lacker, Elvis’ two best men, are present, with everyone else told at the last minute by Colonel Parker’s direction that there is no room for them at the ceremony. A press conference is held in the Aladdin Room immediately after the ceremony, with reporters peppering the wedding party with questions. “Our little girl is going to be a good wife,” says Priscilla’s father, Colonel Beaulieu. “I guess it was about time,” declares Elvis, then turns to his father. “Hey, Daddy, help me.” he says. “I can’t reach you, son,” declares Vernon, smiling. “You just slipped through my fingers.” “Remember,” says the Colonel, “you can’t end bachelorhood without getting married.”
May 4, 1967, Thursday: After two days in Palm Springs, the newly married couple fly to Memphis, arriving at about 6:00 A.M.
May 5, 1967, Friday: Elvis and Priscilla visit the ranch but return in the evening to see Casino Royale at the newly refurbished Memphian Theater. According to Priscilla, it is during this time period that she persuades Elvis to burn the books the Colonel has banned. One night at Graceland they dump a large box filled with books and magazines into an abandoned well, pour gasoline over the pile, and “kiss the past goodbye.”
May 24, 1967, Wednesday: For Priscilla’s twenty-second birthday, Elvis buys her a special “Happy Birthday” charm with rubies and sapphires from Harry Levitch.
May 29, 1967, Monday: Dressed in their wedding attire, Elvis and Priscilla hold a reception at Graceland for friends, relatives, and employees. The room just off the pool patio that held the recently dismantled slot-car track has been decorated in green and white for the 8:30 P.M. affair, with a buffet and wedding cake provided by Monte’s Catering Service and accordion music from Tony Barrasso.
June 9, 1967, Friday: Just before leaving for California, Priscilla learns that she is pregnant.
June 10, 1967, Saturday: A somewhat larger caravan than usual sets out for California. For the first and only time wives are included, and the trip out is something like an extended family vacation, with conventional tourist excursions and home movies taken by Joe Esposito. Included are the Espositos, the Billy Smiths, the Schillings, the Gambills, the Lackers, and Charlie Hodge, with Elvis at the wheel of the Greyhound and a trail of cars behind.
June 13, 1967, Tuesday: The group stays over two nights in Flagstaff, Arizona, while visiting the Grand Canyon.
July 12, 1967, Wednesday: Back on the movie set, Elvis announces that Priscilla is pregnant, and tells reporters, “This is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me.”
August 18, 1967, Friday: Released from Speedway, Elvis is scheduled to begin two nights of recording at RCA’s Studio A on Sunset Boulevard for a non-soundtrack release. The decision was made in June not to return to Nashville but to record in Los Angeles with “more sophisticated” musicians. Plans are radically altered at the last minute when Richard Davis accidentally runs over and kills a gardener who steps out from behind a hedge on a curve screened from view near Elvis’ Bel Air home. The Colonel, fearing bad publicity, sends Elvis and Priscilla off to Las Vegas accompanied by Joe, Charlie, Bill, and Gee Gee.
August 26, 1967, Saturday: Elvis and Priscilla arrive home in Memphis at 8:20 A.M.
October 26, 1967, Thursday: Priscilla and several other wives and girlfriends leave Memphis to travel to Sedona where Elvis reported for shooting on Sunday.
November, 1967, Saturday: Sometime during this month Elvis and Priscilla purchase their first Los Angeles home, at 1174 Hillcrest Road in the Trousdale section of Beverly Hills, for approximately $400,000.
November 30, 1967, Thursday: An architect has been hired to draw up plans for a nursery and other renovations on the second floor at Graceland.
December 10, 1967, Sunday: Elvis and Priscilla fly to San Francisco to visit her family, now stationed at Travis Air Force Base, near Sacramento.
December 16, 1967, Saturday: Elvis and Priscilla return to Memphis.
December 22, 1967, Friday: Priscilla buys a gentleman’s watch for $1,500 from Harry Levitch.
January 8, 1968, Monday: With friends and relatives, Priscilla and Elvis celebrate his thirty-third birthday at Graceland, attending the movies at the Memphian later in the evening.
February 1, 1968, Thursday: Priscilla goes into labor in the early morning hours, and Charlie Hodge drives her and Elvis to Baptist Memorial Hospital, arriving around 10:30am. Elvis is so nervous before leaving the house that his grandmother reminds him that it is Priscilla, not he, who is having the baby. At 5:01pm, Priscilla gives birth to a baby girl, Lisa Marie, while Elvis and other members of the entourage wait in a doctor’s lounge specially set aside for their use. The baby weighs six pounds, fourteen ounces and measures fifteen inches. A special detail of Memphis police, paid for by Elvis, will stand by at the hospital over the next four days.
February 5, 1968, Monday: Elvis brings Priscilla and their baby, Lisa Marie, home from the hospital.
February 14, 1968, Wednesday: Elvis and Priscilla leave a wreath of flowers on Gladys’ grave with a card from “Elvis-Priscilla-Lisa Marie” and special orders that the card is to be burned along with the flowers when they wilt.
February 25, 1968, Sunday: Elvis flies to Los Angeles to Priscilla’s and his new home at 1174 Hillcrest Drive. This smaller, four-bedroom house offers the young family a greater degree of privacy than before, with only Charlie Hodge and Patsy and Gee Gee Gambill residing with the Presley’s.
February 28, 1968, Wednesday: Priscilla arrives in California with Lisa Marie and Joanie Esposito and her two daughters.
April 6, 1968, Saturday: Elvis and Priscilla go to Las Vegas where they catch Tom Jones’ midnight show at the Flamingo.
April 14, 1968, Sunday: Elvis and Priscilla spend Easter in Palm Springs at their new rental house on Camino del Norte.
May 1, 1968, Wednesday: For Elvis and Priscilla’s first wedding anniversary the Deli Restaurant on La Cienega caters a party at the house, and Elvis sends flowers to Priscilla from Sadie’s Flowers in Culver City with a card saying “Love, Elvis.”
May 18, 1968, Saturday: Elvis, Priscilla and Lisa Marie, with Charlie Hodge, the Gambills, and the Espositos, fly to Hawaii.
May 25, 1968, Saturday: In Hawaii Elvis and Priscilla attend Ed Parker’s championship karate tournament, put on at the Honolulu International Center, where Elvis is reintroduced to Parker, whom he first met in 1961, and the couple meets former international light-contact Champion Mike Stone.
June 2, 1968, Sunday: Elvis, Priscilla, and their party return from Hawaii to Los Angeles.
July 23, 1968, Tuesday: Gossip columnist Rona Barrett announces, erroneously, that Elvis and Priscilla have separated.
September 26, 1968, Thursday: Elvis goes to the Memphian with Priscilla, Sonny, Gee Gee, Charlie, and Lamar to see The Thomas Crown Affair with Steve McQueen, and Clint Eastwood in Hang ‘Em High.
December 25, 1968, Wednesday: Elvis and Priscilla spend Christmas at Graceland. For Lisa Marie’s first Christmas Vernon dresses up as Santa.
January 24, 1969, Friday: Elvis, Priscilla, and Lisa Marie fly to Aspen, Colorado, with several of the entourage for a ski-and-snow-mobile vacation.
February 1, 1969, Saturday: In Aspen the group celebrates Lisa Marie’s first birthday.
May 4, 1969, Sunday: Elvis, Priscilla, and Lisa Marie, booked as the Carpenters (the name of Elvis’ Change Of Habit character is Dr. John Carpenter) fly to Hawaii with the Gambills, the Fikes, Charlie Hodge, and the Espositos. They spend first and last weeks at the Ilikai Hotel, with the intervening weekend at the Coco Palms Hotel.
May 18, 1969, Sunday: The group returns to Los Angeles.
August 29, 1969, Friday: With the Colonel, the Colonel’s staff, and all of the guys, their wives and girlfriends, Elvis and Priscilla attend Nancy Sinatra’s opening at the International. After the show they go to a party hosted by Nancy’s father, Frank.
October 5, 1969, Sunday: Elvis flies to Los Angeles, then continues on to Hawaii accompanied by Priscilla, Vernon and Dee, the Espositos, the Gambills, and the Schillings, on a trip largely financed by the international Hotel.
October 12, 1969, Sunday: The group returns to Los Angeles with plans formulated in Hawaii to continue their vacation in Europe. The Europe contingent consists of Elvis and Priscilla, Jerry and Sandy Schilling, Joe and Joanie Esposito, and Patsy and Gee Gee Gambill, and everyone who does not already have one gets a passport on an accelerated basis. The idea is dropped almost immediately, however, when the Colonel argues vociferously that Elvis’ European fans will be insulted if he travels there as a tourist before performing either in England or on the continent. Although Elvis puts up a brave front at first, plans are quickly switched to go to the Bahamas, where the Colonel has contacts and, he says, the will enjoy the gambling.
October 22, 1969, Wednesday: The four couples who were planning to go to Europe together fly to Miami and then on to Nassau, where they stay at the Paradise Island Hotel. Their stay is marred by rain and hurricane winds, and they return home earlier than intended one week later.
December 25, 1969, Thursday: For Christmas Vernon again dresses up as Santa, and Elvis gives Priscilla a black fox coat while she gives him a velvet suit and shirts and slacks designed for personal use by Bill Belew.
January 6, 1970, Tuesday: Elvis flies to Los Angeles with Priscilla and Lisa Marie to prepare for his upcoming Las Vegas engagement.
January 28, 1970, Wednesday: Priscilla and party fly in from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.
February 1, 1970, Sunday: Lisa Marie joins her mother at the dinner show to celebrate her second birthday.
March 3, 1970, Tuesday: Elvis and Priscilla fly to Palm Springs to stay for two weeks at their rented Camino del Dorte home while looking for a house to buy.
April 2, 1970, Thursday: Elvis and Priscilla make a down payment of $13,187.83 on a house at 845 Chino Canyon in Palm Springs, signing a mortgage for $85,000.
May 21, 1970, Thursday: Elvis and Priscilla return to Memphis, remaining until July 5 except for brief trips to Dallas by Elvis.
May 22, 1970, Friday: The group sees Tick…Tick…Tick and M*A*S*H at the Memphian, continuing to attend the movies every night that Elvis is at home.
May 24, 1970, Sunday: Elvis holds a surprise twenty-fifth birthday party for Priscilla at Graceland.
December 4, 1970, Friday: Elvis and Priscilla complete their purchase of the new home at 144 Monovale for $339,000. This house is considerably larger than the one on Hillcrest, providing additional bedrooms for members of the entourage and their wives, while its grounds offer a greater degree of privacy.
December 5, 1970, Saturday: Elvis arranges for everyone, including, his father and stepmother, to fly to Las Vegas for the wedding of George Klein and Barbara Little in his International Hotel suite.
December 10, 1970, Thursday: Elvis and Priscilla take out a construction permit for renovations on the Monovale house.
December 19, 1970, Saturday: Vernon and Priscilla attempt to confront Elvis over his spending habits. In a fury, Elvis leaves Graceland, drives to the airport, and boards a flight to Washington, D.C.
December 22, 1970, Tuesday: Elvis returns to Graceland with gifts for Priscilla and Lisa Marie and many stories to tell.
December 25, 1970, Friday: After all of his exertions, Elvis celebrates Christmas quietly at home with Priscilla and Lisa Marie, then goes to see Little Fauss and Big Halsy, with Robert Redford, at the Memphian.
December 28, 1970, Monday: Elvis is best man, Priscilla matron of honor at Sony West’s wedding. Elvis arrives dressed in a “fur cloth” black bell-bottomed suit that is a Christmas gift from Priscilla.
January 15, 1971, Friday: After arriving in Memphis with Priscilla at 11:30 P.M., Elvis spends several hours in the study next to his bedroom working on his acceptance speech for the JCC awards dinner.
January 16, 1971, Saturday: Elvis and Priscilla attended the JCC prayer breakfast at the Memphis Holiday Inn Rivermont. At 5:00 P.M. Elvis holds a receptions at Graceland for award winnders and Jaycee officials, during which he conducts informal tours of the house. An hour later Elvis and Priscilla host a formal dinner for one hundred guests at the Four Flames Resturant, where playing cards have been embossed with the TCB logo and signed by the star. An elegant “Chateaubriand dinner” is served at the cost of $1,907.51, with entertainment provided by singer and accordionist Tony Barrasso and two violins.
February 24, 1971, Wednesday: Elvis and Priscilla remain in Las Vegas to attend Ann-Margret’s opening at the International.
February 26, 1971, Friday: Elvis and Priscilla see the Irish Royal Show Band at the Stardust.
March 3, 1971, Wednesday: Elvis and his family, as Dr. and Mrs. John Carpenter and Lisa Carpenter, fly home to Memphis by way of Dallas, along with Elvis’ stepbrother, Ricky Stanley, and Charlie Hodge.
March 8, 1971, Monday: Elvis and Priscilla attend the closed-circuit broadcast of the first Ali-Frazier fight at Ellis Auditorium.
April 10, 1971, Saturday: Elvis flies to Los Angeles in time for Easter. Priscilla and Joanie Esposito organize an Easter egg hunt for the children the following day at the Palm Springs house on Camino del Norte.
April 19, 1971, Monday: Elvis is in Los Angeles for most of the month. He and Priscilla may have flown to Mount Holly, New Jersey, on this date to visit for two days with Priscilla’s brother, Don, on leave from Vietnam. It is during this time period that Priscilla begins to take karate classes from Ed Parker, and on April 13 Elvis buys such martial arts supplies as two black karate ghis, sweatbands, headbands, a rubber knife, and skin toughener.
May 1, 1971, Monday: Elvis and Priscilla most likely spends their fourth wedding anniversary in Palm Springs.
June 9, 1971, Wednesday: While Elvis is in Nashville, Priscilla begins lessons at Kang Rhee’s karate studio in Memphis.
September 23, 1971, Thursday: There are reports in the press that Elvis and Priscilla are estranged.
October 6, 1971, Wednesday: Elvis returns to Los Angeles and for the first time stays at the Monovale house. In addition to Priscilla and Lisa Marie, Sonny and Judy West and Charlie Hodge are permanent residents, and the house is big enough to accommodate others as well.
December 18, 1971, Saturday: Priscilla and Lisa Marie arrive in Memphis.
December 25, 1971, Saturday: Christmas at Graceland. Although everything seems normal, in retrospect many of the guys will say that Priscilla and Elvis appeared distant over the Christmas holidays.
December 30, 1971, Thursday: Priscilla and Lisa Marie fly back to Los Angeles. Following their departure, Elvis announces to everyone that Priscilla is leaving him.
February 23, 1972, Wednesday: Priscilla flies in for the end of Elvis’ engagement and informs him that she is involved with karate champion Mike Stone.
March 4, 1972, Saturday: Elvis returns to Los Angeles, moving back into the unsold Hillcrest house while Priscilla remains at the Monovale address.
July 26, 1972, Wednesday: Elvis and Priscilla are legally separated on this date, and by the end of the month the press will report authoritatively that a “black belt karate man” (Mike Stone) has split up the Presley marriage.
August 15, 1972, Tuesday: As part of the formal separation agreement with Priscilla, Elvis relinquishes half ownership in the Hillcrest home, and on September 10 will do the same with the Monovale home.
October 9, 1973, Tuesday: The divorce degree is finalized at the Los Angeles County Superior Courthouse in Santa Monica. The agreed upon settlement calls for shared custody of Lisa Marie and will give Priscilla an outright cash payment of $725,000, $4,200 a month in spousal support for a year plus $6,000 a month for ten years, plus $4,000 a month in child support, 5 percent of the new publishing companies, and half of the sale of the Hillcrest house. After a brief twenty-minute hearing Elvis and Priscilla walk out of court hand in hand.
September 2, 1974, Monday: On his final night in Las Vegas Elvis launches into a long digressive, and embarrassing monologue that focuses somewhat incoherently on a number of personal subjects, including his relationship with Priscilla, who is in the audience with Lisa Marie.