![]() ![]() ![]() Seeking a happy medium, her stepdad set boundaries: they were to be chaperoned, never alone together, and he wanted her home at a certain time. On the other hand, if they refused to let her go, she would never have forgiven them this was an invitation that literally millions of girls yearned for. On the one hand, she was just fourteen years old, and Presley was twenty-four, a grown man. I have to feel for the bind her parents were in. It was while they were stationed in Germany that one of Elvis’s employees saw Priscilla and invited her to meet with Elvis, who was doing his own tour of duty. Her stepfather, the only father she knew, since her own died when she was an infant, was a military man, and so the family moved often. Priscilla grew up in a strict but loving household. ![]() A quick online peek at old film and television clippings says it all. Today, Elvis would probably be considered a predator, but within the context of the American South in the 1950s and early 1960s, he was regarded as a romantic, and women threw themselves at his feet. That said, this was still a truly messed up pairing. ![]() The relationship between Priscilla and Elvis took place in a completely different time, with completely different sexual mores and assumptions. ![]()
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