Did Priscilla Presley Remarry Before Releasing Her Memoir?

Quick and simple: no — Priscilla Presley did not remarry before she published her original memoir, 'Elvis and Me'. That book first appeared in 1985 and covered her relationship with Elvis, their courtship, marriage, family life, and the eventual split in 1973. She spent the decade after their divorce building her life and career, and the memoir came out more than a decade after Elvis's death, giving her plenty of distance to tell her side of the story.

The timeline is kind of interesting because Priscilla’s life after Elvis wasn’t a straight line into another marriage. After their 1973 divorce she focused on raising their daughter, Lisa Marie, and pursued acting and business opportunities. The memoir captured a lot of that transition — not just the sensational parts of being married to Elvis, but the quieter, human details of what it felt like to hold her own identity together under enormous public scrutiny. She did remarry later (to Marco Garibaldi), and that relationship produced her son Navarone, but that chapter of her life began after she'd already published 'Elvis and Me'. For readers trying to place events, it helps to remember the gap between the divorce and the memoir: the book was a retrospective that came years after the marriage ended.

Reading 'Elvis and Me' feels like getting a cautious, candid conversation from someone who’s been through a lot of public drama but still has private wounds and memories. It isn’t a salacious gossip piece so much as a personal account from a woman who had to reconcile love, fame, and loss. Later projects and interviews added more perspectives and nuance, and of course Priscilla’s life continued to evolve—her later marriage, her work with Graceland, her public appearances — but those came after the memoir had already been put out into the world.

If you're curious about the book itself, expect a mix of behind-the-scenes glimpses and reflective passages that explain how she coped in the years after Elvis died. For me, memoirs like this are fascinating because they show how people rebuild and redefine themselves. Priscilla’s story in 'Elvis and Me' is a snapshot of that particular rebuilding period, written before the next major personal chapters unfolded.”