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how long were priscilla and elvis together

Priscilla and Elvis Presley were together for about 13–14 years in total, with roughly 6 of those years spent as a married couple.

Basic timeline

  • They met in West Germany in 1959, when Priscilla was 14 and Elvis was 24, and they began an on‑and‑off romantic relationship soon after.
  • Their relationship (from first meeting to final separation) is commonly described as lasting about 13–14 years.
  • They married on May 1, 1967, in Las Vegas and remained legally married until their divorce was finalized in October 1973, so they were husband and wife for about six years.

Living together and after

  • Priscilla gradually moved into Elvis’s Graceland home in the early 1960s, and they were living together well before their 1967 wedding.
  • Even after their divorce, they stayed in close contact and continued to co‑parent their daughter Lisa Marie Presley until Elvis’s death in 1977, but their romantic partnership is generally considered to have ended with the 1973 divorce.

In pop‑culture discussions and recent films like Priscilla , their story is usually summed up as a roughly 14‑year relationship, with six of those years as a highly public, often turbulent marriage.

TL;DR: From meeting in 1959 to separating in the early 1970s, they were together about 13–14 years, including six years of marriage from 1967 to 1973.

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