Priscilla Presley was born May 24, 1945. She’s 81 now, and she’s still on the road.
These days she walks out on stages around the world and talks about her life with Elvis. HELLO! magazine listed stops in London, Bristol, Edinburgh, Dublin, Paris and New York, plus Christchurch and Auckland in New Zealand and Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney in Australia.
The shows go with her memoir, “Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis,” which came out on Sept. 23, 2025. She told HELLO! in January that the book took her “more than 11 months” to finish.
But the part she seems to enjoy most comes at the end, when the audience gets its turn.
“I love doing it, talking about all this, sharing, and of course answering all their questions,” she told HELLO! “I get some good questions!”
Think about what that means for the people in those seats. A question they’ve wondered about for years can go straight to the woman who was married to Elvis.
This clip from her live stage show gives you a feel for those evenings, with Priscilla telling her own Elvis stories to the people who came to hear them.
Priscilla sharing Elvis stories on stage at her live show
So what do people ask?
Every so often, somebody brings up one of the old rumors that have followed Elvis around for decades, the kind you hear secondhand and never get a straight answer on.
According to HELLO!, one person asked if Elvis ever wore a toupee. A hairpiece. On the King of Rock n’ Roll.
Priscilla didn’t hesitate.
“No, that’s not true; that was his beautiful hair.”
That was it. One sentence, and a rumor that has floated around for years was done.
It’s the kind of answer only she could give. She knew the real Elvis at home, away from the cameras and the stage lights. And when she talks about him now, it’s the small, human things she brings up. “He had the best laugh,” she said.
Family comes up a lot, too. Priscilla is a grandmother, and she clearly loves the role. Her granddaughter is Riley Keough, Lisa Marie Presley’s daughter and Elvis’s granddaughter, who many people know as the star of “Daisy Jones & The Six.” Riley is a mom of two now, with a daughter named Tupelo and a baby born in 2025.
“My granddaughter Riley and I are very close. She’s just a wonderful mother,” Priscilla said.
And about the rest of the clan: “We’re all very close, all of us in the family.”
She isn’t slowing down. Asked about the year ahead, she said she’ll “probably still” be “going out touring with my show.”
She was also asked what she thinks Elvis would be doing if he were here today. Her answer sounds a lot like her own life right now.
“I think he’d be doing the same thing in life, singing and touring. He loved it.”