The True Elvis Exposed: Marriage Secrets, Lasting Love — and What Really Tore Him & Priscilla Apart

On Elvis and Priscilla's fourth encounter, the young woman's parents insisted on meeting the Can't Help Falling in Love singer at their home.

He arrived wearing his Army uniform to impress Priscilla's father, who interrogated him about his intentions for her. Elvis admitted he was very fond of her, assuring the patriarch he did not have to worry because he would take care of her.

After the formal meeting with her parents, Elvis started courting Priscilla despite their 10-year age gap and followed a routine while seeing each other.

In her autobiography, Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and King of Rock' N Roll, the 78-year-old Melrose Place star said their relationship never physically progressed beyond kissing and lying on his bed.

This mirrored what she revealed when she recently spoke at a Venice press conference for the upcoming film, Priscilla.

"People think, 'Oh, it was s--, it was this.' Not at all," she said. "I never had s-- with him. He was very kind, very soft, very loving. But he also respected the fact I was only 14 years old. We were more in mind and thought and that was our relationship."

Their relationship was tested when Elvis had to leave her in Germany to return to the U.S. Soon after he left, Priscilla locked herself in her room, unable to eat or sleep properly.

However, she found herself in the middle of reporters and photographers when she finally got the courage to go to school again.

Priscilla dealt with a little heartbreak when Elvis was linked to Nancy Sinatra, although the singer later denied the reported budding romance. She soon received a phone call from him 21 days after he left, helping them survive their long-distance relationship.

Two years after their long-distance love started, Priscilla jetted to the U.S. for a two-week stay.

"For the next two weeks, we slept during the day and played at night," Priscilla said. "If there was a show, we saw it; if there was a casino, we gambled at it."

Before she was able to go to the U.S., she had to convince her parents to allow her to travel and promised to keep them updated from time to time.

During the same visit, Elvis reportedly introduced her to sleeping pills and amphetamines.

Following her short vacation, she returned to the U.S. to spend their first Christmas at Graceland.

To finally close the gap in their long-distance romance, Elvis convinced Priscilla's father to let her finish her senior year and live with his parents, Vernon and Vee Presley.

In the same year, she moved to Graceland and spent more time with Elvis and his grandmother.

Three years after they started living together, Elvis popped the question and presented Priscilla with a 3.5-carat diamond ring.

The actress recalled the "surprising" moment in her interview on NPR's World Café program in 2017.

"He got on his knee with a gift behind his back and told me to close my eyes," she said. "Of which I did and then told me to open them and he presented me with a beautiful engagement ring."

Elvis and Priscilla officially tied the knot on May 1, 1967, at a private Las Vegas ceremony that only lasted eight minutes.

Despite having a child, their relationship hit rock bottom when Priscilla got involved in an affair with her karate teacher, Mike Stone. She told Elvis she was leaving him in 1972, and she was convinced to pursue their split because of her then-husband's own infidelities.

"He wasn't faithful, not that he had someone special, but when you're in the entertainment business there is always that and I tried to turn my back to that, but I just didn't want to share him," she said.

Elvis' friend, Mae Boren Axton, said the breakup "killed" him and hurt his ego.

Their divorce documents revealed that they agreed to split and decided to live apart a few days after the revelation of their affairs.

Although it ended things between them, they continued co-parenting Lisa Marie to help the child feel stable.