Priscilla Presley has consistently said in interviews and in her memoir Elvis and Me that she was a virgin when she married Elvis and that they did not have intercourse until their wedding night. Some biographers have questioned this, but their claims are based on interpretation and secondhand accounts rather than direct proof.

What Priscilla herself says

  • In her autobiography, Priscilla writes that Elvis was very passionate but insisted they wait for “the actual encounter” until marriage, and that she was a virgin on their wedding night.
  • She has repeated in later interviews that although they shared a bed and were intimate in other ways, they did not have intercourse before the wedding because Elvis wanted his future wife to be a virgin.

Why Elvis wanted to wait

  • Accounts describe Elvis as having strong ideas about “purity,” influenced by his religious upbringing and conservative views on women, and he reportedly told Priscilla that his wife “needed to be a virgin.”
  • He also feared scandal and out‑of‑wedlock pregnancy, which could damage his career in the 1960s entertainment climate.

Disputed viewpoints

  • Some biographers, such as Suzanne Finstad, have suggested Priscilla may not have been a virgin and allege earlier sexual activity, including possibly with Elvis before marriage, but these claims are contested and rely on interviews and speculation rather than hard evidence.
  • Fans and forum discussions often debate whether Priscilla’s book dramatizes or softens parts of the relationship, but there is no definitive proof that contradicts her own statement about being a virgin when she married him.

So what’s the most accurate answer?

  • Factually, the only first‑person, direct source is Priscilla herself, and she says she was a virgin when she married Elvis and that intercourse began on their wedding night.
  • Other writers and commentators have raised doubts, but their versions cannot be confirmed and remain interpretations rather than established fact.

In short: according to Priscilla’s own account, yes, she was a virgin when she married Elvis; anything else is speculation built around a very controversial and much‑discussed relationship.

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