The myth-shattering account of the most famous and most taboo love story in rock-and-roll history
Child Bride reveals the hidden story of rock icon Elvis Presley’s love affair with fourteen-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, the ninth-grader he wooed as a G.I. in Germany and cloistered at Graceland before marrying her to fulfill a promise to her starstruck parents. Award-winning biographer Suzanne Finstad perceptively pieces together the clues from candid interviews with all the Presley intimates—including Priscilla herself, along with hundreds of sources who have never before spoken publicly—to uncover the surprising truths behind the legend of Elvis and Priscilla, a tumultuous tale of sexual attraction and obsession, heartbreak and loss.
Child Bride, the only major biography of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, unveils the controversial child-woman who evolved from a lonely and sexually precocious teenager kept by the King of Rock and Roll into a shrewd businesswoman in control of the multimillion-dollar Elvis Presley empire, a rags-to-riches saga of secrets and betrayals that began when Priscilla was only three years old.
Child Bride: The Untold Story of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley FROM THE PUBLISHER You could say that fate placed Elvis Presley, the most famous GI in the army, in Germany, and that fate, too, played a role in Priscilla Beaulieu's family's transfer to that same country in that same year. But that's where fate leaves off and sheer resolve takes over, as a beautiful fourteen-year-old girl determines to meet the twenty-six-year-old King of Rock and Roll - and the rest is truly history. Child Bride is the never-before-told story of Elvis's love affair with Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, the only woman he ever married. For the first time, award-winning author and journalist Suzanne Finstad tells the intimate, behind-the-scenes story of Elvis and Priscilla's life together - a tumultuous, captivating tale of sexual attraction and obsession played out across two continents and two very different worlds. In Child Bride Finstad carefully maps the relationships and circumstances that shaped one of the most successful and powerful women of her generation - a woman who almost single-handedly took a six-million-dollar estate and turned it into a hundred-million-dollar enterprise.
SYNOPSIS A fascinating portrait of a woman's unique coming of age. FROM THE CRITICS Library Journal More on Elvis? Yes, more on Elviswith a different slant from books like Brown and Broeske's, previewed above. Finstad, a writer for Cosmopolitan and Mademoiselle who also has a law degree, here details the life of Elvis's "child bride," Priscilla.
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