Every grandma knows the feeling. One minute the grandkids are tiny, and the next they’re taller than you and making their own plans.
Priscilla Presley knows it too, and last year she found a funny way to say so.
Priscilla was married to Elvis, and she’s the mother of his only child, Lisa Marie. Lisa Marie had twin daughters, Harper and Finley, who were born on Oct 7, 2008. Last month, on Oct 7, 2026, the girls turned 18.
Every October, the family marks their big day online. Their big sister, Riley Keough, has a sweet habit of posting for them. For their 16th birthday in 2024, she wrote, “Happy Sweet 16 to my angel girls” and “I am so lucky to be your big sissy.” A year later she shared two old photos of herself carrying the twins as little girls, with the words “My angels are 17 today.”
Priscilla posts every year too. And her message for their 17th birthday, in October 2025, is the one that had fans laughing.
It was short. She shared a reel on Instagram with a photo of each twin. According to HELLO! magazine, one twin had long black hair framed by two blonde streaks. The other had long platinum blonde hair.
Here’s what Priscilla wrote, word for word:
“Happy Birthday girls!! I can’t say your age! I’m keeping you at 15. 🫣Nona ♥️♥️”
She simply refused to say it. The twins were turning 17, and Grandma had decided they’d stay 15 a little longer, thank you very much. Any grandparent who has ever wished the calendar would slow down got the joke right away. The post picked up more than 470 comments.
Then there’s the sign-off. It wasn’t “Priscilla” or “Grandma” at the bottom of that post. She signed it “Nona,” a playful grandma name that sounds a lot like the Italian “nonna.” For a woman most of us still think of as Elvis’s wife, it was a sweet, silly little peek at her as a grandmother.
Of course, time didn’t listen to her.
This October the girls turned 18 anyway. This time Priscilla kept it simple. She posted a photo of the two sisters standing together by the ocean, both dressed in black, with the words “Happy birthday Harper & Finley.”
She skipped the age jokes this year and let her girls be grown up.
Entertainment Tonight covered that 18th birthday post, and it’s worth a watch to see the photo Priscilla chose for the twins’ big day.
Entertainment Tonight on Priscilla’s 18th birthday photo of the twins
It’s the little moments like these that fans hold on to. A big sister calling the twins her angels, and a grandmother who once tried to freeze them at 15, then finally let them turn 18.
Lisa Marie would have been so proud of the young women they’ve become.