Elvis Presley and ex-wife Priscilla would lay in mattress at night time considering of names for his or her child – and selected one in case that they had a boy.
Lisa Marie Presley was the one little one of legendary singer Elvis Presley – and it’s usually been requested whether or not the King of Rock n Roll needed extra youngsters.
Precisely 9 months to the day after Elvis married Priscilla, Lisa Marie was born on February 1, 1968.
Lisa Marie, who tragically died on Thursday on the age of 54 following a cardiac arrest, was the couple’s solely little one they usually separated in February 1972.
Elvis didn’t go on to have any extra kids earlier than his dying in August 1977, when Lisa Marie was simply nine-years-old.
This meant that on her twenty fifth birthday in 1993, she inherited her late father’s Graceland property, which had grown to be price an estimated $100 million.
Priscilla has beforehand spoken about how she and Elvis got here up with Lisa Marie’s identify – and a few hypothesis was not true.
Explaining on Fb, she stated: “I purchased a guide of child names for Elvis and I to select from. We’d lay in mattress night time after night time wanting by way of all of the names that will sound good collectively. We determined that Lisa Marie was lovely for a lady…She wasn’t named after anybody.”
She additionally dispelled a hearsay over the naming of her daughter, including: “From what I hear, it was written someplace that we could have taken the identify Marie after Col. Parker, his supervisor’s spouse, who was named Marie.
“That isn’t true. We simply merely… appreciated these two names collectively.”
Elvis and Priscilla had additionally selected a boy’s identify which additionally had two elements.
Priscilla revealed: “I cherished the identify John Baron for a boy…he agreed.”
There was lots of hypothesis as as to if The King needed any extra kids.
One one that was capable of give some perception was Danny Smith, the son of Elvis’ cousin Billy, who grew up at Graceland.
Talking on the Memphis Mafia YouTube channel, he stated: “It’s been stated by completely different folks, yay and nay. And like I stated, nobody particular person was round Elvis on a regular basis.
“I don’t know what he could have advised people and he by no means advised me that he did. However I simply had that feeling or felt like he was very content material and proud of Lisa and simply the best way issues have been going.
“I personally don’t assume he was trying to have extra kids. Solely actually Elvis would know that however, my view of it…that’s what I personally assume.”
Lisa Marie tragically died on Thursday on the age of 54 following a cardiac arrest.
Paramedics rushed to her home in Calabasas and transported her to hospital after having the ability to regain a pulse. Sadly she died whereas receiving remedy.
In a press release, her mum Priscilla stated: “It’s with a heavy coronary heart that I need to share the devastating information that my lovely daughter Lisa Marie has left us.
“She was probably the most passionate sturdy and loving girl I’ve ever identified. We ask for privateness as we attempt to cope with this profound loss. Thanks for the love and prayers. Right now there will probably be no additional remark.”
Tributes have flooded in from many individuals, together with ex-husband Nicolas Cage and Grammy award winner Diane Warren.
