Child Bride (74 page)

A pensive Priscilla at fifteen, posing for Elvis.
Photograph copyright
© 1997
by Currie Grant. Used by permission.

Priscilla at a senior dance with Jamie Lindberg, the boy she didn’t want to leave in Germany.
Photograph courtesy of Jamie Lindberg.

Senior Year: Priscilla in the 1963 H.H. Arnold yearbook. The caption refers to her boyfriend, Jamie Lindberg, whom her parents pushed her to reject on favour of Elvis.
Photograph courtsey of Rick Bresnan.

Dee Stanley Presley, with sons Billy, Ricky, and David, at the orphanage before taking them to Graceland, their new home, in 1960. Priscilla and Elvis would become Rick’s surrogate sister and brother.
Photograph courtesy of Rick Stanley.

Priscilla as “Best Looking Senior” in the class she left behind to live with Elvis.
Photograph courtesy of H. H. Arnold High School.

Elvis and his lost love Debra Paget on the set of
Love Me Tender
in 1956. Priscilla would later re-create this image of Paget when she met Elvis.
Photograph by Twentieth Century Fox. Photograph courtesy of Debra Paget.